OXFORD, ENGLAND – Around this time of year, speculation in Asia always runs high as to whether 91AV原创 prime minister or other prominent politicians will visit Yasukuni Shrine.
The shrine, which honors more than a thousand indicted war criminals who took part in 91AV原创 disastrous war in Asia, remains a place of fascination for Japanese rightists, who persist in claiming that 91AV原创 war in Asia was a war of liberation against Western imperialism.
This claim sounds particularly hollow in China and South Korea, which suffered horrifically from Imperial 91AV原创 invasion and occupation of much of Asia.
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