"Koizumi, a close ally of President George W. Bush, paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of his country's World War Two surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korea not to go."
"In 1978, 1,068 convicted war criminals, among them executed wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo and 13 other Class A war criminals, were secretly enshrined there."
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in uniform.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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He looks like an Elvis fan.
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