6/15/2005

Poor Taiwanese lawmaker Kao Chin Su-mei—She can’t get her family un-enshrined from the war-crime shrine of the kind Japanese who killed her ancestors. That would be like putting Jews and Poles in the the Hitler Shrine. Sheesh.

Taiwan natives’ Yasukuni protest unfulfilled
Because of the obstruction of Japanese police, a group of Taiwan’s indigenous people Tuesday failed to enter the Tokyo-based Yasukuni shrine, where they had planned to protest against the enshrinement of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Although the police made a chicanery that they were doing so to protect the Taiwan group from possible conflict between the group and Japanese right wingers…