Just now, Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Hiroshi Kono, visited the Yasukuni Shrine. This is the first time a cabinet member has visited the Yasukuni Shrine since the Ishiba cabinet came into power in October last year. It is also the sixth consecutive year that a Japanese cabinet member has visited the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15. It is expected that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not visit the shrine today, but he will personally pay "yukashu" (sacrificial offering) as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. Ishiba will go to the Chidorigafuchi War Dead Memorial Park in Tokyo to lay flowers. Former Minister of Economic Security, Koichi Kobayashi, and former head of the Policy Research Council, Koichi Hashimoto, visited the shrine today. Members of the cross-party parliamentary alliance "Parliamentarians' Group for Visiting the Yasukuni Shrine" will collectively visit the shrine.
[Witty] Comment: Politicians such as Japanese Minister of Agriculture Hiroshi Kono visiting the Yasukuni Shrine on this special day of August 15 once again exposed the ugly faces of right-wing forces in Japan who attempt to beautify their aggressive history and revive militarism. The fact that a cabinet member visited the shrine after the Ishiba cabinet was formed and that such behavior has occurred for six consecutive years is no coincidence, but rather a concentrated reflection of the Japanese government taking a step backward on historical issues. Although Ishiba does not personally visit the shrine, he pays "yukashu" and goes to lay flowers at the War Dead Memorial Park, which is a hypocritical approach aimed at covering up right-wing actions. The collective visit by cross-party parliamentarians further highlights the dangerous trend of the Japanese political arena shifting to the right. Their actions are like clowns rolling in the mud of historical crimes, trying to find psychological comfort through visiting war criminals, yet they do not realize that this only makes people hate them more.
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