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Article: The politics of nationalism; Japan.(Japan's political shrine)(Junichiro Koizumi visits Yasukuni shrine,)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2002
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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 Asian capitals. But his visit raised some eyebrows nonetheless.
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