New way of cooling air though it was not very effective.
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YASUKUNI AUGUST 15 (The Day Japan Surrendered in 1945)
| Every year when August 15 nears, messages and warnings come in from South
Korea and China demanding the high officials of the Japanese government
not to visit the shrine where Japanese war dead including Class A War Criminals
are enshrined. At the Yasukuni shrine, 2.5 million Japanese war dead since Meiji Era are enshrined. This year in 2019, Prime Minister Abe will be withholding visiting the shrine on August 15. Some war veterans appear wearing the imperial army and navy uniforms. Also groups of right wing nationalists are seen creating tense atmospheres in and around the shrine. At the Budokan Hall which is located across the street to Yasukuni Shrine, The 74th Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead will be held with the attendances of Emeror and Empress as well as Prime Minister near noon. Many people also visit Yasukuni Shrine after attending the ceremony at Budokan which is finished at 1 p.m. Kitanomaru Park where Budokan is located will become off-limits from 5 p.m. August 14 to 1 p.m. August 15.. URL: Yasukuni Shrine Address: 3-1-1 Kudanshita, Chiyoda-ku Access: Kudanshita Station on Subway Tozai Line and Hanzomon Line. 5 minutes walk. Telephone: 03-3261-8326 |
(All photos on August 15 in 2016)
New way of cooling air though it was not very effective.
74 years have passed since the end of the war and people who experienced
and
know the war are disappearing. Yasukuni Shrine is facing a serious problem.
| Along the street from Kudanshita Subway Exit to Yasukuni Shrine are many activists appealing their causes and passing leaflets to Yasukuni visitors. |
Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist and was a judge at the Tokyo Tribunal.
He was the only
one who submitted a judgement which insisted all defendants were not guilty.
| Quotes from the old newspapers as evidences that the comfort women claimed by South Korea is not true. |
| A former imperial army soldier appealing goodness of the imperial instructions for soldiers. |
| This man continued to come to Yasukuni on this day for 30 years and used to be a leader of a soldiers parade. He became 92 years old and cannot continue what he used to do and just sits here all day on August 15. He owns a private war museum at Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture. |
| People of Taiwan Civil Government parade at Yasukuni. They claim Japanese education before the war was not wrong and they want to belong to Japan again as a federal state.(2016 photo) |
| Right wing group people. |
| Right wing group people. Banners say "Unite Japanese under the emperor." "Nanjing Massacres are not true" etc. |
A group of right wing intellectuals Nihon Kaigi holds a meeting every year
on this day at Yasukuni