Japan PM candidates deny toning down views on nuclear, gender issues to attract votes netscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from netscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Japan plans to dramatically ramp up daily COVID-19 tests, borrowing from anti-contagion measures used in the recent Tokyo Olympics, as it battles its worst wave of infections, driven by the Delta variant.
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Nearly eight decades after Japan s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is some background on the shrine for Japan s war dead and its impact on the country s relations with China and both North and South Korea. DYING FOR THE EMPEROR Established in 1869 in a leafy urban enclave, the shrine is dedicated to 2.5 million Japanese who died in wars beginning in the 19th century and including World War Two. Funded by the government until 1945, Yasukuni - its name formed by combining the words for peace and country - was central to the state religion of Shintoism that mobilised the wartime population to fight in the name of a divine emperor. Since 1978 those honoured have included 14 World War Two leaders convicted as Class A war criminals by an Allied tribunal in 1948, among them the wartime prime minister, Hideki Tojo. Tojo and the others were secretly elevated t
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