Japanese High School History Textbooks

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Yasukuni Jinja

From the Yasukuni Jinja website (in English)

http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/

“…Those who offered their lives for the country during these struggles were also worshipped at Yasukuni Jinja. The noble work of buiding the nation of Japan that was one with his majesty the Emperor was accomplished through the blessings of the ancestors of each of you.

Nevertheless, to defend the independence of the nation as well as the peace of Asia, the sad development of wars with other countries arose…”

- all the 1,068 charged and convicted at the Tokyo tribunal are now worshipped at Yasukuni—“Martyrs of Showa”

- all in all, there are 2,366,000 kami (神) at Yasukuni