Above all, there have been Japanese leaders’ recurring pilgrimages to Yasukuni. The shrine not only records war criminals in its “Book of Souls”; it also contains the Yushukan museum, where Japan’s conquests in the 1930’s and 1940’s are glorified as “just wars fought for survival and self-defense” or for the “liberation of Asia.”
最重要的是，其后日本领导人仍频繁参拜靖国神社。神社的灵魂之书上不仅赫然列有战犯的名字；还建有“游就馆”，把日本二十世纪三四十年代的侵略行为和政府美化成“为生存和自卫”或“解放亚洲”的正义战争。