Tokyo (AP) – Japan I respect that more than 3 million wars are dead as the country marks it Suspension Eighty years ago, World War II ends as concerns grow about the rapidly declining memories of the tragedy of war and the bitter lessons from the era of Japanese militarism.
Around 4,500 officials, bereaved families and descendants from around the country will observe a moment of silence at noon at the national ceremony at Budcan Hall in Tokyo on Friday.
It’s only one block away Yasukuni Shrineseen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of militarism, dozens of Japanese right-wing politicians and their supporters came to pray.
prime minister Ishiba Shigeru Leaving away from Yaskuni, he sent religious ornaments as a personal gesture, rather than praying at a controversial shrine.
but Ono Jinjirothe Agriculture Minister was considered the highest candidate to replace the troubled prime minister who prayed at the shrine. Onomura, son of popular former Prime Minister Minzer Junichiro Koizumi, who Yasuni visited as the service leader that infuriated China in 2001, is a regular at the shrine.
He also ruled the former Minister of Economic Security, Genoa and Right-wing lawmakers, including Kobayashi Inoue, as well as the heavyweight Liberal Democratic Party, Hagida, who also visited the shrine on Friday.
The shrine has convicted war criminals whose war has killed approximately 2.5 million people. Victims of Japanese invasion, especially China and South Korea, have seen visits to shrines as lack of regret about Japan’s wartime past.
As the wartime generation population rapidly declines, Japan faces serious questions about how wartime history should be communicated to the next generation, as the country already faces. Revisionist pushback under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe He was a supporter of the 2010s.
Since 2013, the Japanese Prime Minister has stopped Apologise to Asian victimsunder the precedent set by Abe.
Denial of Japan’s military roles of some lawmakers Massive civilian deaths in Okinawa or Nanjing Massacre It sparked a controversy.
On the editorial Friday, Mininch newspaper called on the country to work with its Asian neighbours, noting that Japan’s pacifist principles are primarily to move away from global conflict, rather than thinking about ways to create peace.
“Now is the time to demonstrate our vision for a ‘war-free world’ based on lessons from its own history,” Mintin said.
