The Economist (US), October 15th, 2005
A small improvement in Japan-Korea relations
ANYONE who goes to a particular shady corner of Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine at 10am on October 15th will come across a curious sight. There, around a stone tablet some five feet high with a rock balanced on the top of it, the visitor will see South Korean officials, Buddhist monks and members of civic groups offering their veneration. This is curious, because Yasukuni is not simply a memorial to Japan's dead in all its wars; it is also the glorification of a half-century of Japanese militarism and aggression, of which the Koreans were the earliest vi...
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