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	Yasukuni Shrine by Mike Rogers
		Yasukuni Shrine (which literally translates into "peaceful nation shrine") was constructed in June 1869 to commemorate all victims of the Boshin war — as well as those who died in earlier wars since 1853.
		Yasukuni Shrine, of course, stayed with being known as a religious institution that is privately funded.
		The point that must be remembered is that Yasukuni Shrine is not a shrine glorifying Japanese militarism, it is a shrine to pray for the forgiveness and rest of the souls who died in war.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rogers/rogers188.html (2089 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine Visits
		In the postwar period, Yasukuni has been visited twice by prime ministers in their official capacitiesÑin 1985 by Nakasone Yasuhiro, and in 1996 by Hashimoto RyutaroÑwho held the post of chairman of JapanÕs major war dead association before ascending to the premiership.
		The idea is to make the shrine into a public corporation rather than a religious organization, and to move to ÒsoulsÓ of the class A war criminals to a separate compound, which the ministers would not have to visit.
		Yasukuni Shrine, which was initially built in 1869, was given its present name a decade later.
	www.zmag.org /japanwatch/0009-yasukuni.html (567 words)

	Japan Focus
		Yasukuni is first and foremost a site for the performance of ritual before the kami (gods), those men, women and some children who sacrificed their lives for the imperial cause.
		Shrine priests insist though that their kami are to be thought of as ancestors of the living and not as angry spirits.
		Yasukuni rites preserve the memory of a war in which all deaths were selfless acts of bravery on behalf of the imperial institution; of a war which was only ever noble and glorious.
	japanfocus.org /products/details/2060 (2803 words)

	Q&A
		Later, also enshrined were those who had gave up their lives for the country in the 15 year period of the troubled times starting with the coming of Commodore Perry and his four warships to Uraga in 1853 to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
		Among the Kami of Yasukuni Jinja are military nurses who in their red cross insignia uniforms worked gallantly in the face of air raids on the homeland to save the wounded.
		The Kami of Yasukuni Jinja offered up their lives in battle with prayers for the eternal independence and peace of Japan, and the sincere wish that wonderful history and traditions of Japan, left to us by our ancestors, will continue to be conveyed to future generations.
	www.yasukuni.or.jp /english/qanda.html (1326 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine Summary
		Yasukuni Shrine is a major Shinto shrine in Japan honoring the dead of the Imperial Japanese Army from the Sino-Japanese War (1899) to World War II.
		Yasukuni has been visited routinely by members of the royal family, but civil politicians have been criticized for visiting the shrine because the remains of Japanese soldiers convicted of war crimes are placed there.
		The Yasukuni Shrine was originally constructed in June 1869 by order of the Meiji Emperor to commemorate the victims of the Boshin War.
	www.bookrags.com /Yasukuni_Shrine (4027 words)

	USF Center for the Pacific Rim :: Yasukuni Film Narration
		Yasukuni shrine was established in 1869 to house the spirits of soldiers who died during the civil wars that had given birth to the new nation of Japan.
		Yasukuni's priests consider themselves to be guardians of the nation's heroic spirits.
		Yasukuni shrine provides a gathering place for their ear-splitting sound trucks as they champion patriotism, the emperor, or any cause made to resonate with their nationalistic agendas.
	www.pacificrim.usfca.edu /research/yasukuni_narrative.html (2179 words)

	Yasukuni Problem
		Yasukuni Shrine, a Shintoist religious body corporate, is the shrine where the soldiers and civilian employees of the military who died in modern Japan's wars have been enshrined as 'heroic spirits'.
		Yasukuni Shrine was a religious and military facility indispensable for the prosecution of aggressive war.
		State involvement in Yasukuni Shrine would be possible under the present constitution if the character of the shrine were changed, and there is also the possibility of trying to escape international criticism by consigning the 'A-class war criminals' to a separate shrine.
	www.iwanami.co.jp /jpworld/text/yasukuni01.html (2341 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Yasukuni shrine
		Yasukuni shrine, the most troubling and troublesome place in all of Japan, the most potent symbol of the national Japanese neurosis, was back in the news last week.
		Yasukuni, by contrast, surrounds you with a perverse militarism that is otherwise available only in books, old films or embittered memories.
		Yasukuni even venerates General Hideki Tojo, one of the madmen from whom Japan was saved by the atomic bomb.
	www.robertfulford.com /YasukuniShrine.html (835 words)

	CNN.com - Where war criminals are venerated - Jan. 14, 2003
		The shrine's authorities are reluctant to accept the verdict of war crimes tribunals, and history.
		The shrine, situated in central Tokyo just outside the moat to the Imperial Palace, was established in 1869 as the Tokyo Shokonsha, or Shrine for Inviting the Spirits, during the reign of Emperor Meiji.
		The shrine was intended to venerate those who died in the struggle to reassert imperial rule in place of shogun warlords.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/13/japan.shrine (431 words)

	Chosei's Another Weblog - Koizumi's Yasukuni Shrine Visit
		The shrine visits have been a lightening rod for critics who accuse Japan of failing to fully atone for its military invasions in the 1930s and 40s.
		Yasukuni, a shrine in Japan's native Shinto religion, which revers the emperor as its head priest, has long been a symbol of Japanese imperialism.
		Critics say the shrine and politicians' visits are a wider symbol of Japan's failure to atone for its invasion of Asia in the 1930s, which killed millions of Chinese.
	funahara.com /blog/index.php?blog=5&title=koizumi_s_yasukuni_shrine_visit&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (1885 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tokyo shrine a focus of fury around Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		To many Japanese, the Yasukuni Shrine is no different from Arlington National Cemetery in the USA: a place to honor their war dead.
		The shrine was built in 1869 to commemorate soldiers killed in a Japanese civil war.
		Yasukuni, which means "peaceful nation," is supposed to be a place to reflect on the sorrow of war.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-06-22-tokyo-shrine_x.htm (981 words)

	A Moratorium on Yasukuni Visits -- June 2006
		Yasukuni is a Shinto shrine that honors almost 2.5 million war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals convicted after World War II by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
		Its response to Yasukuni is conditioned by the fact that it underwent a century of humiliation from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century, subject to encroachment by European colonial powers and ruthless aggression by Japan.
		Yasukuni’s complexity today is the result of a decision taken in the wake of World War II by the General Head Quarters of the U.S. occupation forces, the government of Japan, and Yasukuni.
	www.feer.com /articles1/2006/0606/free/p005.html (4804 words)

	Japanese Architecture: Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
		Yasukuni shrine was established in the 2nd year of Emperor Meiji's rule (1869).
		Although Yasukuni means "peaceful country" it is dedicated to the souls of the approximately 2.5 million Japanese war dead from the origins of Meiji rule in the mid 1800s to the end of World War II (1945).
		Naturally, the shrine has invited controversy, especially since 1979 when a group of Class-A war criminals including Premier Tojo were enshrined here.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /tokyo/YASUKUNI.htm (141 words)

	JAPAN: Koizumi at Yasukuni Shrine Again
		Oishi, a banker, has been visiting the shrine annually since 2001 to pay respects to his grandfather who fought in China and was taken by the Russians to Siberia as a war prisoner.
		‘'Rather the shrine must be understood as a particular Japanese version of mythology,'' he explained to the press recently, pointing out that the broader context of visiting the shrine is to redefine Japan as a state with its own identity that includes the Japan-U.S. security pact.
		Yasukuni is seen by some as a rallying point for those opposed to the continued presence of U.S. military bases in Japan.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=34348 (1034 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine and the state of Far East relations, by the auroran sunset
		Yasukuni also has the names of a few A-class World War II war criminals on its lists [nobody is buried at Yasukuni, despite what you may have read in the fossil media].
		Yasukuni Shrine sits in the middle of Tokyo city on a large road named after it.
		Hatsumoude at Yasukuni Shrine - the picture was taken on the 5th, which is after the main hatsumoude ‘season’, hence the fairly tame crowds.
	www.abelard.org /japan/yasukuni_shrine.php (1478 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
		The Yasukuni Shrine is in the Marunouchi District northwest of Mizugami Park.
		The spring festival at the shrine takes place between 21 and 23 April, the autumn festival from 17 to 19 October.
		Yasukuni Shrine, in as much as it is a sanctuary for state Shintoism, still gives rise to political contention.
	www.planetware.com /tokyo/yasukuni-shrine-jpn-kn-yask.htm (287 words)

	YASUKUNI SHRINE
		Yasukuni Shrine (靖國神社) is a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead, housing the souls of some 2.5 million people killed in Japan's wars — including convicted war criminals executed by the Allies.
		The Yasukuni Shrine is located in Chiyoda ward Tokyo.
		The Yasukuni Shrine is a favourite haunt of right-wing groups in fl loudspeaker-equipped trucks.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /tokyo/yasukuni_shrine.htm (214 words)

	NPR : Yasukuni Shrine: War Memorial, Political Flashpoint
		This remarkable place is called Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto memorial that honors Japan's war dead from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to World War II.
		For them, Yasukuni is the symbol of Japan's imperial past and a visit to the shrine by a Japanese leader is seen as a tacit endorsement of Japan's wartime behavior when millions of Chinese, Koreans and other Southeast Asians were killed and enslaved by the Japanese.
		While the shrine itself may be peaceful, a tour through the newly minted museum adjacent to the shrine reveals a version of the Pacific War with a very different spin from other histories of the period.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5651454 (864 words)

	Memorial Details: The Yasukuni Shrine
		The Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni Jinja) is Japans national memorial for all those who died fighting in the wars that Japanese troops have been involved in since the Boshin War in 1867-68.
		The annual visit to the shrine by the Japanese prime minister is therefore causing stark criticism from neighbouring countries and foremost by China.
		Yasukuni Shrine (literally "peaceful nation shrine") is a controversial Shinto shrine located in Tokyo, Japan dedicated to the spirits of soldiers who died fighting on behalf of the Japanese emperor.
	www.war-memorial.net /mem_det.asp?ID=26 (1317 words)

	YASUKUNI JINJA
		In fact, Yasukuni was originally established not just as a religious place to pay homage to the dead, but also as a symbol of the newly united nation.
		It was in 1879 that the Shrine was named Yasukuni, which means “the Shrine for establishing the peace in the empire.” The Satsuma rebellion had occurred just two years earlier and after victory the Emperor’s officials wanted some symbol to reunite the country.
		According to Tsubouchi Yuzo, author of Yasukuni, the Shrine was “a symbol of eradication of all local color under one national identity.” The Emperor and his officials used this Shrine not only as a symbol of the reunification, but also as a symbol of the Emperor’s legitimacy as ruler of the nation.
	www.geocities.com /gatoesmuchogor (1441 words)

	Yasukuni-Jinja Shrine- Tokyo, Japan - VirtualTourist.com
		Yasukuni Shrine is famous for veiwing beautiful sakura(someiyoshino variety) trees, which flowering late March to early April.
		Visiting the Shrine dedicated to those who gave their life in the service of the emperor and the ar museum on the grounds will give you an understanding that you can't get from news reports.
		Whereas, Yasukuni is an important memorial for Japan's fallen, it enrages some in countries such as China & the Koreas, who see any act of recognition of this shrine as an act of endorsement for Japan's acts of agression during the early 20th century.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Japan/Tokyo_to/Tokyo-969164/Things_To_Do-Tokyo-Yasukuni_Jinja_Shrine-BR-1.html (1462 words)

	Sake-Drenched Postcards - Returning to Yasukuni Shrine
		This week he's venturing to Yasukuni Shrine on the sixtieth anniversary of the conclusion of World War II.
		Through the length of the grounds, families in suits and dresses get ready to pass through the shrine's gates and pay their respects to fallen relatives.
		Visits to the shrine by Japanese prime ministers and other officials are seen as an affirmation of the warrants of Japan's involvement in World War II.
	www.bigempire.com /sake/yasukuni_shrine.html (760 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Tokyo \| Frommers.com
		Built in 1869 to commemorate Japanese war dead, Yasukuni Shrine is constructed in classic Shinto style, with a huge steel torii gate at its entrance.
		In stark contrast to the somberness of the museum, temporary exhibits of beautiful ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and bonsai are often held on the shrine grounds in rows of glass cases.
		Yasukuni Shrine is also famous for its cherry blossoms.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/tokyo/A23464.html (456 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan's controversial shrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Yasukuni Shrine - the name means 'peaceful country' - was founded in 1869 on the orders of Emperor Meiji.
		Compared with most Shinto shrines, which were founded hundreds of years ago, the dedication of the Yasukuni shrine was a relatively recent affair.
		The shrine is frequently at the centre of political storms.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/1330223.stm (486 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine Stirs Controversy: Japanese Shrine Highlights Conflicting Attitudes Over Early 20th-century Japanese ...
		The Yasukuni Shrine in Japan is an object of pride for many Japanese.
		For some Japanese, the Yasukuni Shrine still serves its original purpose as a place to honor war heroes.
		The shrine was originally established in the mid-19th century to honor Japanese war heroes (before Japan became an imperialist power).
	asianhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/yasukuni_shrine_stirs_controversy_ (699 words)

	CNN.com - Koizumi visits Yasukuni war shrine - Oct 16, 2005
		The Yasukuni shrine is dedicated to Japan's fallen troops.
		This is Koizumi's fifth visit to Yasukuni since taking office in 2001, and he has repeatedly insisted his visits to the shrine are to honor Japan's war dead, and not to promote militarism.
		The Osaka High Court said Koizumi's worshipping at Yasukuni shrine is a public act and therefore violates the constitutional separation of state and religion, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/shrine.koizumi (459 words)

	Yasukuni Shrine
		The shrine was founded in 1869 as Tokyo Shokonsha, and was renamed Yasukuni Shrine in 1879.
		Furthermore, the visits by several Japanese prime ministers to the shrine since 1975 have been causing concerns regarding a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
		For some people, especially in the Asian countries which suffered most under past Japanese imperialism, the shrine has become a symbol for Japanese militarism and ultra-nationalism, and many are taking the prime ministers' visits as a sign hat Japan's political leaders are not looking critically enough at their country's history.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2321.html (288 words)

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