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EURR 4202 Lecture Notes - Yasukuni Shrine, Yasuo Fukuda, Junichirō Koizumi

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European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
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This history between china and japan has left its strong impacts. Japan committed many atrocities in china during the first half of the 19th century. Japanese occupation of china, the japanese imperial army behaved in a very brutal and cruel way against the chinese. About 10 million civilians and 2. 5 million soldiers were killed in china (maciamo, 2005). for example, in 1937, between 50000-300000 civilians were raped and killed in only one event: the nanjing massacre. The chinese were expecting that the japanese would apologize for what they had committed. Yet, the japanese did not sufficiently apologize for its war crimes. On the contrary, some japanese leaders used to visit the yasukuni shrine to honor its dead soldiers, including war criminals. Japanese prime minister junichiro koizumi who defied the chinese feelings with his annual visits to the shrine during his period of office [2001-2006] (maciamo, 2005).

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