What s going on with the Jinkoku Shrine in Japan?

The following long article is a good quote on Zhihu.,I just hope more people understand what's going on with the Yasukuni Shrine.,I used to see in a magazine article that there was a director who wanted to shoot "Yasukuni Shrine" What is the name of the director you can search for I forgot it's a documentary It seems that his feelings are the same as the author of the following quotes. There is no bias, fairness and justice. The following is the original text (cut the main one).

In the early 90s, the relationship between China and Japan was very close, and it was at that time that I started learning Japanese.

In my memory, the change should have happened around 95-98, when China had some changes in foreign policy, and some moves in the military, which caused quite a stir in the international community. On the Japanese side, the biggest change is that it has begun to focus its contradictions on the matter of paying respects at the Yasukuni Shrine.

This is because there has been no significant change in Japan's domestic and foreign policies around this point in time, while China's policies have changed significantly. Therefore, it can be said that at this point in time, China has played a greater role in the Japanese problem than Japan.

During the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in the 70s, during the period of Kakuei Tanaka, the issue of the Yasukuni Shrine already existed, and the spiritual tablets of World War II war criminals were not moved back to the Yushukan after the 90s, so the problem has existed for a long time, and we have not studied it deeply for various reasons.

If we can agree to the changes at this node, we can find the internal logic of China's political, economic, social, and economic leaders during this time period, but because of the sensitivity, these will not be possible.

But this problem should continue forever, unless China is more generous and makes concessions, because in Japan, the issue of visiting the shrine is almost an unsolvable issue, and the Japanese leader has to worship if he wants to gain popular support, and if he worships, he will not be able to have good relations with China, and if he has good relations with China, he will not be able to be re-elected.

Last year, when I went to Japan on a business trip, I went to the Yasukuni Shrine once, and I was shocked. Because it is quiet, tidy, ordinary, open, everyone can come and go as they please, no tickets are required, as long as there is no loud noise. Maybe the young Japanese didn't go either, and I only saw the old people and children.

The Japanese religion holds that after death, the soul of all Japanese people becomes a drop of water that merges into the pool of water in the shrine, never to be separated and become one. (This is one of the reasons why the Japanese think that China does not understand Japanese religion and make "unreasonable" demands, the Chinese think that taking the tablet away will solve the problem, but the Japanese think that their souls have long been one with the rest of the people and cannot be taken away.)

It is a Yasukuni Shrine that commemorates those who participated in World War II.

The Japanese do not admit to losing to China and do not take the Chinese seriously.

In principle, the shrine is dedicated to national heroes.

Generally, only generals who died on the battlefield in accordance with morality or committed suicide in defeat can enter. Of course, although the shrine enshrines tablets with names and surnames, unsung heroes are also enshrined.

So, the key problem for Japan is not that they have admiration for war criminals, but that they are still unclear about the nature of the war.

During World War II, Japan's justification for foreign expansion was to help Southeast Asian countries drive out Western colonizers and develop their economies together. Even now, that's what they're taught in history books. Therefore, the Japanese do not think that World War II, they are the source of the war, but that Japan has unfortunately provoked the United States in the process of helping the weak little brothers around them to drive away the big bad wolf like Lei Feng.

In the end, the emperor's order was called the "Armistice Edict" instead of the "Surrender Edict", in other words, logically speaking, it was not Japan's unconditional surrender, but the Japanese emperor's order not to fight.

In this way, Japan has always done a just thing, and even if it was bombed by the United States and finally surrendered, it was only very dignified and urgently stopped. Therefore, they do not consider World War II a sin in the first place, so there is nothing wrong with enshrined some famous generals of World War II together as ordinary heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country.

1.Basically, it's all in.

2.Japan says that these are heroic souls who died fighting for their country.