- 15 Nov 2002
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Photo gallery of Japanese far right
If you've ever been to Tokyo, you've probably seen and heard those strange vans with huge speakers driving around town, blasting some kind of recorded diatribe. They are propaganda vans operated by emperor-loving, Yakuza friendly right-wingers.
Juergen sez: "Every year on August 15th, Yakuza, Right Wing Groups and War Veterans gather at the controversal Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to commemorate the end of the war and to worship the war dead. The Yasukuni Shrine has a special significance, because Japanese believe that once a soldier has been enshrined at Yasukuni he becomes a kami, or national deity. The kami at Yasukuni are thought to look over the nation and protect it just as they did when they died fighting for it. During World War II, soldiers believed the highest honor they could receive was death followed by enshrinement at Yasukuni. Soldiers had a saying "see you at Yasukuni", which meant they knew they were going to die, but they would meet again in death. Yasukuni Shrine is currently the home to the souls of more than 2.5 million Japanese war dead including fourteen convicted Class A war criminals.
For them the war is never over:
http://www.juergenspecht.com/documentations/?number=27
Photo gallery of Japanese far right
If you've ever been to Tokyo, you've probably seen and heard those strange vans with huge speakers driving around town, blasting some kind of recorded diatribe. They are propaganda vans operated by emperor-loving, Yakuza friendly right-wingers.
Juergen sez: "Every year on August 15th, Yakuza, Right Wing Groups and War Veterans gather at the controversal Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to commemorate the end of the war and to worship the war dead. The Yasukuni Shrine has a special significance, because Japanese believe that once a soldier has been enshrined at Yasukuni he becomes a kami, or national deity. The kami at Yasukuni are thought to look over the nation and protect it just as they did when they died fighting for it. During World War II, soldiers believed the highest honor they could receive was death followed by enshrinement at Yasukuni. Soldiers had a saying "see you at Yasukuni", which meant they knew they were going to die, but they would meet again in death. Yasukuni Shrine is currently the home to the souls of more than 2.5 million Japanese war dead including fourteen convicted Class A war criminals.
For them the war is never over:
http://www.juergenspecht.com/documentations/?number=27