The Economist (US), April 27th, 2002
No surrender by Koizumi
Koizumi visits Yasukuni
THIS time, there was no fanfare or advance warning. On April 21st, Junichiro Koizumi, dressed in a morning suit, paid an unexpected visit to Yasukuni shrine, a memorial to Japan's war dead. By going during a spring festival, the prime minister said, he would avoid a trip in August, around the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the second world war. He may thus be able to avoid the drawn-out controversy of last summer, when his campaign promise to visit the shrine at the time of the anniversary prompted appeals not to, both at home and in Asi...
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