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On September 19, 2020, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed on his Twitter, saying that he worshiped the Yasukuni Shrine and said that he worshiped the Yasukuni Shrine today and reported to the Yingling on the 16th of this month.Just three days after the resignation of Prime Minister's resignation, the critical voice from China and South Korea came one after another, but it did not cause such a big sensation in Japan, because Abe's worship behavior, regardless of its right or wrong, China and South Korea's reactions are expected to be expected.Essence
Shinzo Abe came to power for the second time in December 2012. One year later, he never worshiped after visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in December 2013. It is just a routine sacrifice every spring and autumn.Potted offerings; on the day of the end of the war on August 15, he did not pay as a prime minister as a Prime Minister, but was paid as a salary fee called the jade skewers as the President of the Democratic Party.It can be seen that he himself has the willingness to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, but he did not go to worship during his time when he was in office.
When the Abe government came to power for the first time in 2006, although he did not worship during his term, he paid a real fee of 50,000 yen (about 650 yuan) at the regular festival in late April 2007.At that time, the wooden sign of the Cabinet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was attached to the flowerpot worship.This is since the former Prime Minister Zeng Kanghong, who has been worshiped in the prime minister after 20 years.After Abe resigned as Prime Minister's position in 2007, he worshiped the Yasukuni Shrine from 2008 to August 15, 2012.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the former Prime Minister Koizumi Koizumi Toron had triggered a problem of worship of the Yasukuni Shrine during his tenure.He had not worshiped before he took office, and he worshiped repeatedly after taking office. After his resignation, he also worshiped from August 15 from 2007 to 2009, but there was no once after 2010.Although Koizumi Chunichiro repeatedly worshiped as the Prime Minister, he did not have to visit as an individual.Abe only worshiped once as the Prime Minister. Because he worshiped every year before he took office, he was expected to be the same after he resigned.
However, he did not wait for the routine sacrifice in the fall, and went to the Yasukuni Shrine in just three days after resigning. This is also a bit anxious.Whether Abe, who is returning to the status of members to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, is a legal issue in law.However, premature worship after resignation will inevitably be opposed by the neighboring countries such as China and South Korea; the new government of Sugiwei may also be affected.
Before the Secretary -General of the Abe's Cabinet of the Abe government, Tan Yifei also worshiped the Yasukuni Shrine; in addition, he published on the Cabinet Secretary -General's tenure in his tenure.Comment.Like Abe, he does not visit as the secretary -general and Prime Minister's term of office, but it is inappropriate to treat visiting the issue of Yasukuni Shrine as a diplomatic issue. This should be the position of the new Prime Minister.
At this point, Tan Yiwei will not regard Abe's worship as a problem.For the Liberal Democratic Party, the influence of the survivors is still very great, which is naturally manifested in the attitude of Liberal Democratic Party politicians on the issue of worshiping the Yasukuni Shrine.
Having said that, this problem lies in the existence of the cube.The extension of the extension of the President Xi Jinping in Japan and China, improving the bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea is considered one of the diplomatic issues of the new government of the Sugawi.After the resignation of Abe's resignation, visiting the Yasukuni Shrine can be said to have added another problem in these topics.
Given that the second government's cabinet in 2017 did not worship in the summer of 2017, it became a condition for improving Japan -China relations, so the issue of worship of the Yasukuni Shrine was essentially related to diplomacy.This requires the new government to have the ability to deal with it.On the autumn festival starting on October 17, the movement of the cabinet of the new government of Sugiwei will become an important vane.
The author is a professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan
