Unlike most places where people go to pay their respects to the war dead, Yasukuni Shrine can often be polarising, not to mention controversial; the inclusion of war criminals among the 2,466,000 men and women enshrined there creating friction with Japan’s neighbours, as well as within the country itself. And, as a focal point of sorts for nationalist organisations, the situation is made even more
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