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Koizumi visits Yasukuni war shrine  TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has visited the controversial Yasukuni war shrine that honors the war dead, a move that has prompted outrage from China and South Korea in the past.

There is no doubt that most Japanse people are fond of Koizumi's policy. Very few people,who are considered left and are close to extinction in Japan, may be against his visit Yasukuni.

I believe there are two reasons many japanese people say YES. One is because they are confident in themselves about knowing fully about World War 2 and thinking the view of people in Korea and China are largely distorted because they are taught a kind of wrong history. Second half people, especially young people, have no knowledge to make their decisions because there know so little about the last war that they cannot think Japanese invaded other countries only 60 years ago.

Yasukuni had not been a big political issue like today until Koizumi became Prime Minister.Of course there had been always controvertial in this country but this problem had been just a local problem.But today, it became interenational one. Foerign countries like South Korea and China, Yasukuni becomes a word which make people imagine about japanese military actions.

Oddly, as Korea or China are getting mad about Koizumi visit, many japanese begin to support Koizumi's stance, saying his visit Yasukuni is to show his idea not to begin war again and Korean or Chinese are totally misunderstanding what he is thinking.

The profound reason japanese people like Koizumi style have something to do with China's economic growth. People in Japan have learned that we would never think ourselves as No1 country in Asia and feel jeolous to China.

So Koizumi is just a comfort dream which make people forget their disadvantages and a fake medicine which do not acturally cure their dark future.