Criticizes “Kishida” sends trees to pay respect to Yasukuni Shrine – after sitting in the prime minister’s chair for only 14 days
Criticized “Kishida” – On October 17, AFP reported that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida The Japanese leader who just took office at the beginning of October. Send the masaki tree to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to celebrate the Fall Festival
Kyodo News said from sources that Mr Kishida had no scheduled visits to Yasukuni Shrine during the festival or in the near future.
File Photo: Japan’s new prime minister on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that honours war dead and is seen by neighbouring countries as a symbol of Tokyo’s past militarism. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS
Even so, sending a gift to a shrine pays homage to the Japanese soldiers who died in the war, who were part of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. including the army leaders who were convicted of war crimes. and create dissatisfaction with the nations that were victims of the violence of the Japanese army especially China and South Korea.
The report states that in addition to Mr. Kishida Mr. Shigeyuki Goto Minister of Health and Mr. Kenji Wakamiya The minister oversees the World Expo 2025, which Osaka Prefecture will host. Sakaki trees are also sent to worship Yasukuni Shrine.
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sends a ritual “masakaki” tree offering to Yasukuni, a Shinto shrine, in Oct. 17, 2021. The shrine in central Tokyo honours 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who have perished since the late 19th century. But it also enshrines senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal. KYODO
File Photo: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Earlier this year, three top ministers paid their respects at the shrine on the anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender. But a Japanese prime minister has not appeared there since 2013, when Shinzo Abe sparked fury in Beijing and Seoul and earned a rare diplomatic rebuke from close ally the United States. KYODO
File Photo: Two of Kishida’s ministers — health and labour minister Shigeyuki Goto and Kenji Wakamiya, minister in charge of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka — also offered sacred trees. /tokyotimes/
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