Annex to the Imperial Palace is the Yasukuni-jinja, a shrine or cemetery whose name means “rest of the country.” It was built in the mid-nineteenth century to honor the defenders of the Emperor during the Meiji Restoration. Since then it has also been expanded to house the dead in the successive wars in the country. It is said that Japanese kamikazes before his death, they said “see you at Yasukuni.”
Yasukuni is today a controversial monument as a symbol of Japanese Shinto nationalism. Many critics say that here are buried large war criminals Pacific as General Tojo and see this monument bad memories of Japan Shinto. Every time that Koizumi visited the Yasukuni by strong protests from neighboring countries, as these general consider many war criminals buried here.
In Yasukuni, there are a huge military museum with clothes and objects of dead soldiers and nothing more and nothing less than a kamikaze bomber in the middle of the room.
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