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It is regrettable that you ignored the reality of present-day Japan to support a thesis of rising nationalism by citing a number of views ("Tokyo shrine raises hackles," A-Plus, July 28).
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has stated very clearly that he visits the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to mourn Japan's war dead and to pray that such a war will never be repeated. Thus, you should have been more sensible than to call Mr. Koizumi's visits "honoring war criminals" and the shrine like "a shrine to Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler" in the eyes of "some historians."See the full content of this document
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