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@Whatis7777777 · 2026-10-10 19:31

You say events from over 60 years ago are ancient history that shouldn't be brought up against today's Japan. Then what about the Class A war criminals still honored at Yasukuni Shrine? In 1978 the shrine secretly enshrined 14 of them, including Hideki Tojo and Iwane Matsui. Japanese prime ministers, defense ministers, and lawmakers have kept visiting or sending offerings ever since, and China and South Korea still protest every year. If the 1950s–60s pollution incidents are too old to discuss, why is the memorialization of wartime leaders from even earlier still an active political practice? The same double standard applies to the Hakkō Ichiu Tower in Miyazaki. Built in 1940 at the height of the invasion of China, it incorporated stones collected on the orders of Army Minister Seishiro Itagaki. Roughly 238 of them came from China, including a qilin-carved stone from the Nanjing area (inscribed by the Nanjing Japanese Residents Association) that was taken after the Nanjing Massacre, along with pieces linked to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Great Wall. Since 2015 the director of the Nanjing Folk Anti-Japanese War Museum has repeatedly demanded their return; none have been given back. The tower was later renamed the “Peace Tower,” but the stones remain in place. If history that old can simply be set aside, then the ongoing official-style honoring of those war criminals and the unrestituted looted stones should be set aside first. Pointing at China’s current economic problems does not erase the inconsistency.

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