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Originally Posted by Ithekro
Shinto works differently if I recall.
That shrine is for all Japanese War dead. Any that died in the service of the Emperor since 1867.
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Change the rules, the war criminals were not truly "serving the emperor". The war criminals were only enshrined there in the 60s, a deliberate decision was made to enshrine the war criminals against the wishes of the emperor (who subsequently boycotted the shrine, as does his successor).
Also, a
decent review of the revionism going on in their museum. They even have a paragraph describing Wang Jingwei as someone who "wanted peace with Japan".