Among The Ashes Of War Criminals

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Taipei Times: Japan's other war shrine - Koa Kannon temple
...On a wooden hillside overlooking Atami Bay, some 90km southwest of Tokyo, a statue of the goddess, Kannon, stands with half-closed eyes which, the nuns say, are gazing toward China. Ashes of seven top war criminals including General Hideki Tojo, the prime minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, were buried on the temple grounds among other individual sites in Japan after they were hanged in December 1948...But today the Koa Kannon temple is deserted save for two elderly nuns, the Itami sisters, who live here permanently and welcome the rare visitors...In another era, commandos of the now defunct far-left Japanese Red Army in 1971 partly dynamited the monument to the seven war criminals. A black stain still remains on the stone marker...more...

[Mulboyne]

[Yokohammer]

It is utterly amazing how persistent and all-consuming the urge to absolve themselves of past wrongdoing is. Years and decades of unrelenting repudiation in the face of incontrovertible, carefully documented history. But they keep hacking away, hoping that one day the facts will be overpowered by diligent denial.

Good luck with that.

[Mike Oxlong]

Isn't the short answer that many of the men arrested as war criminals were reinstated during the reverse course the Americans made in fear of communist takeover? They and their children and grandchildren have been trying to erase history.

[McTojo]

[floatl][/floatl]Taipei Times: Japan's other war shrine - Koa Kannon temple
...On a wooden hillside overlooking Atami Bay, some 90km southwest of Tokyo, a statue of the goddess, Kannon, stands with half-closed eyes which, the nuns say, are gazing toward China. Ashes of seven top war criminals including General Hideki Tojo, the prime minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, were buried on the temple grounds among other individual sites in Japan after they were hanged in December 1948...But today the Koa Kannon temple is deserted save for two elderly nuns, the Itami sisters, who live here permanently and welcome the rare visitors...In another era, commandos of the now defunct far-left Japanese Red Army in 1971 partly dynamited the monument to the seven war criminals. A black stain still remains on the stone marker...more...

Tojo's Ashes were scattered in several places. If you click on the drop down menu at the top of my blog you'll find where is other ashes are. I have been trying to for years to get the Japanese to start looking more carefully at how Western nations have crafted their interpretation of the events of WW2. I also don't believe that Japanese are denying that much, but for them to sit back and allow China and so-called Western academics to criminalize the whole race is uncalled for and should stop immediately. Starting with the Board of Education teachers who refuse to acknowledge the Hinomaru should be placed on administrative leave without pay until further notice. There needs to be a consensus from the top down.