Japan's "Yasukuni Shrine" was built in the Meiji era, and was originally intended to honor soldiers and their families who died in battle during the Meiji Restoration. However, the majority of the tablets in the museum today are the war criminals who died in the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, and their intentions are clearly revealed.
However, unlike the right-wing forces that do not die of thieves, the Japanese people and even the families of the war criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine are not active on this issue, and many people oppose placing the tablets of those war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine, such as the descendants of Togo Shigeku, who are among the representatives.
Although Togo's fame was not very great, he was also a class A war criminal with many crimes, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and finally died of illness in prison. This alone is enough to prove that the crimes he bears must be indispensable.
Since the 1930s, Japan's relations with the Soviet Union and Germany can be said to be "love and hate mixed", and there are two key figures in this, one is the Japanese ambassador to Germany Hiroshi Oshima, and the other is the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Shigetoku Togo.
About Oshima Hiroshi, we have introduced before, the cooperation between Germany and Japan during World War II is almost all related to this person, and even once called Hitler a brother. Togo, on the other hand, is the one that Japan has the most say in the Soviet Issue.
When the Japanese army provoked the Battle of Nomonkan, as a result, a division was instantly "annihilated" and it was Togo Maude who quickly ran to the Soviet Union to talk about peace. At the outbreak of World War II, it was also Togo Momoku who signed the Japan-Soviet non-aggression pact as a representative.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that in the early days of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union has been providing assistance to China, but Togo Maude ran to the Soviet Union to make a big fuss, and finally made the Soviet Union stop aiding China, which can be called the enemy of Chinese!
After the end of World War II, Togo Wase was indicted for "jointly conspiring to discuss the war crime of aggression" and was eventually sentenced to Class A war criminals and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In October 1978, the Japanese enshrined 14 Class-A war criminals, including Hideki Togo, Ishigen Matsui, and Kenji Doihara, at the Yasukuni Shrine, and even many Japanese prime ministers visited the shrine, causing an uproar.
However, the Togo family was a little cold about Togo's entry into the Yasukuni Shrine, and no one even wanted to mention it. His grandson, Kazuhiko Togo, a former Japanese diplomat, openly stood up in 2006 to "complain about former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine" and shouted in an interview with the media that he "hopes to suspend the Japanese prime minister's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine" and "remove those exhibits used to advocate Japan's war history."
In an interview in August 2015, Kazuhiko Togo said, "I hope to move the spiritual seat of my ancestors out of the Yasukuni Shrine!" "I have to say that this is really a solid punch in the face of the right-wing forces!"
Of course, then again, although Kazuhiko Togo opposed the radical move of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, it was more out of political considerations, as he himself said: "This kind of behavior has seriously affected the diplomatic development of Japan with neighboring countries." ”
By implication, his opposition to visiting the Yasukuni Shrine and moving out of the plaque was all used as a means of easing diplomatic relations. When asked about his attitude toward his grandfather Togo Maude, he once gave this answer: "I don't think my grandfather was a war criminal who did nothing wrong, but history has given such an assertion, and I can only choose to accept it." "Look, there is still reluctance and dissatisfaction between the lines.
In fact, the attitude of Kazuhiko Togo also represents the attitude of the overwhelming majority of the Japanese people, who oppose the government's obviously provocative behavior and long for peace and stability, but in their hearts it is difficult to completely deny these war criminals. But we believe that the truth of history will eventually be restored, will be known to the world, and that the war criminals who are lying in the Yasukuni Shrine will eventually return to where they should go.