OXFORD, ENGLAND ¨C Around this time of year, speculation in Asia always runs high as to whether Â鶹´«Ã½ prime minister or other prominent politicians will visit Yasukuni Shrine.
The shrine, which honors more than a thousand indicted war criminals who took part in Â鶹´«Ã½ disastrous war in Asia, remains a place of fascination for Japanese rightists, who persist in claiming that Â鶹´«Ã½ war in Asia was a war of liberation against Western imperialism.
This claim sounds particularly hollow in China and South Korea, which suffered horrifically from Imperial Â鶹´«Ã½ invasion and occupation of much of Asia.
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