"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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It's ironical that you should criticize the Japanese on the one hand
for not teaching their children about WWII, and on the other for
criticizing them for honoring the war dead at Yasukuni. Absent the
shrine, there wouldn't be any memorial to the war at all. (Well, there
would be the obelisk at ground zero at Hiroshima.)

That sounds like a major drop in context...would you clarify?