Japan: Summary of Tojo Yasukuni Debate

Ampontan summarized a segment of a South Korean TV program that appeared on August 13, 2006 with Japanese subtitles. The show featured Tojo Yuko, granddaughter of former Prime Minister Tojo Hideki (who served during much of World War Two and was later hanged for war crimes), speaking to a Taiwanese woman and South Korean woman about the Yasukuni shrine and Japan's wartime history.

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