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Theme: Religious Tolerance and Yasukuni Shrine, -Yasukuni and Shinto
Speaker: Suh Sung (Director of Korean Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
The speaker emphasizes how religious orders had lapsed into the collusive ties with political regimes throughout the history of Japan, which eventually had forced the former to serve Japanese Militarism in the first half of the 20th century. He has proved this point by explaining the history of Yasukuni Shrine. Defining the main character of Yasukuni Shrine as one of military establishments, he has shed light on the reason why Korea and China can not but expressing the doubt about the Japanese attitude towards the past.
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Theme: Religious Tolerance and Yasukuni Shrine, -Yasukuni and Shinto
Speaker: Suh Sung (Director of Korean Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
The speaker emphasizes how religious orders had lapsed into the collusive ties with political regimes throughout the history of Japan, which eventually had forced the former to serve Japanese Militarism in the first half of the 20th century. He has proved this point by explaining the history of Yasukuni Shrine. Defining the main character of Yasukuni Shrine as one of military establishments, he has shed light on the reason why Korea and China can not but expressing the doubt about the Japanese attitude towards the past.