Yasukuni on my mind…

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With Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s trip to Tokyo imminent, I thought it might be useful for China focused readers to understand a bit of the //Japanese// political backdrop to the bitter Yasukuni Shrine battle between Beijing and Tokyo. The following link is to a piece in an online Japan focused journal that often contains insightful articles on issues related to Japanese-Chinese relations (one of my own personal obsessions). This is, I think, a good, fair read on a very fraught subject..
http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2401