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Japanese shrine that honors war dead, including convicted war criminals, is vandalized again

Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalized. The Shinto shrine called the act deplorable. Japanese media reports say graffiti was found on a stone pillar near the arch. In May, a stone pillar at Yasukuni was spraypainted red. A Chinese suspect was arrested in July. Asian nations that suffered from Japanese aggression before and during World War II see Yasukuni as a symbol of militarism. Convicted Class A war criminals, including Hideki Tojo, Japan’s wartime prime minister, are among the 2.5 million Japanese war dead enshrined at Yasukuni.

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