isn't that surprising? you guys mourn soldiers for peace instead of tens millions civilians killed by those soldiers? no museum...why don't u help start one, I do understand u have deep spiritual belief that want to relieve the wardeads, so help the souls of civilian casualties to rest. would you?No, we don't have such a meseum.
Because it is for the war dead, Yasukuni tends to be warlike, but nobody including our leader can stop its policy and museum in our free society until we succeed in persuading it not to be so.
make that small shrine as a neccessary stop with medias, that might ease some tensions, but seperate one will be much better though.
Do you know our premier's visit to Yasukuni doesn't necessarily symbolize it as a state affair because he isn't the head of Japan
actually, cross do change over timesymbol can be created over time, and can be destoyed over time also. But what people always forget is that symbol can be changed over time",... .... some symbols don't change/loose their meaning/value forever. The cross will always be the symbol of christ as for example.
During the first three centuries of Christianity, the cross was rare in Christian iconography as it depicts a purposely painful and gruesome method of public execution by impalement and/or exposure. The Ichthys, or fish symbol, was used by early Christians to covertly identify each other. The Chi-Rho monogram, which was adopted by the Constantine I in the fourth century as his banner called the labarum, was an Early Christian symbol of wider use.
Descriptions of the cross are to be found in Christian writings from the early 2nd century onwards. The Cross first became prominent in Christian imagery during the 3rd century in Egypt. A Christian bust from the site of an early church in Fayoum, Egypt, shows an ankh partially evolved, changing, over time, from a round upper section, to one that is half-way through a "morphing process", leading to the Coptic cross . It is being worn, in this half-way mode, as a necklace on the bust.