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SUBJECT: DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/14/06
INDEX:
(1) Ten-member Yasukuni Shrine council (sodaikai) decides budget and
enshrinements
(2) Yasukuni Shrine -From battle field to where (Part 5): Both
increasing visitors to Yushukan, prime minister's repeated visits
drawing young persons' attention
(3) Editorial: Though he has the lead in LDP presidential race, Abe
urged to pursue serious policy debate
(4) Intelligence capabilities must be sharpened: ex-cabinet
intelligence chief
(5) Japan-dispatched official anti-Japanese essay
ARTICLES:
(1) Ten-member Yasukuni Shrine council (sodaikai) decides budget and
enshrinements
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
August 13, 2006
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said that he will visit
Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. A South Korean ruling parliamentary
group comprising of ruling party members arrived in Japan on Aug. 12
to oppose Koizumi's trip to Yasukuni. Special police officers to the
prime minister checked the precincts of the Shinto shrine. Given the
situation, this newspaper examines how Yasukuni is managed.
Yasukuni incomes on decline
The income resources of Yasukuni Shrine are contributions from
corporations and individuals, tamagushi-ryo (cash offering made on
the occasion of one's visit to the shrine), and money offerings by
shrine visitors. The annual budget totals less than 2 billion yen.
The shrine's incomes have been on the decline due to a decrease in
corporate contributions, as well as in the number of the Japan
War-Bereaved Families Association members. The shrine says it has
recently cut its budget.
The council of representatives of shrine parishioners is made up of
ten members from various circles, including business leaders and
former senior bureaucrats, according to a shrine source. Since June,
when Makoto Koga resigned as chairman of the Japan Association of
the Bereaved Families of the War Dead, the executive board has
dropped to nine members. The term of a member of the board is only
three years. The council decides on such important policy issues as
budgets, audits, management, and approval of new enshrinements. A
decision is adopted by a unanimous vote. The guji or the chief
priest of the shrine attends council meetings to serve as chair of
the meetings, according to a shrine source. Most priests come from
the former nobility (in prewar Japan). Toshiaki Nanbu is the 9th
chief priest. He once worked at a major advertising agency (Dentsu).
He assumed the post in September 2004 at the recommendation of
Kasumi-kai, an organization comprising of former nobility.
Negative reaction to separation of Class-A war criminals
There are 52 shrines that honor the war dead across the country
(gokoku-jinja). Since those shrines mainly honor the local war dead,
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some of them have enshrined Class-A war criminals and some have not.
In the prewar period, the then Internal Affairs Ministry managed
Yasukuni Shrine and the Imperial Japanese Military and Navy
controlled the gokoku-jinja. After the war, they became religious
corporations. The Association of Shinto Shrines (Jinja-honcho) has
jurisdiction over about 80,000 shrines nationwide, including the
gokoku-jinja. The association takes in charge of personnel changes
and financial affairs. However, Yasukuni does not belong to the
association, since it is positioned as head of the gokoku-jinja.
Should Yasukuni be stripped of its Shinto affiliation, the Yasukuni
council will have to decide on how to dissolve the religious
organization. However, a Shinto source made this skeptical comment:
"If Yasukuni becomes a non-religious facility, the souls of the dead
will no longer be recognized. If so, Yasukuni will become just a war
memorial." If Yasukuni is placed under state control, there will be
issues regarding the compatibility with the constitutional rule of
separation of politics and religion such as whether the name of
Yasukuni and the front guard frame (torii gate) should remain and
whether Shinto-style worship should be retained.
Yasukuni enshrines now about 2.46 million war dead, including the 14
Class-A war criminals. The Shinto religion does not allow the souls
of the war dead once enshrined to be removed from the shrine. Among
Shinto religion sources, there is a view that removing Class-A war
criminal would be 100% impossible.
Members of the council of representatives of shrine parishioners
Name
Tile
Koremasa Anami
President, Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry
Science and Technology
Seiji Ishino
Advisor, Shiseido Co.
Minoru Inoue
Advisor, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Shiro Odamura
Former Takushoku University president
Hatsuko Shimazu
Former Imperial family member
Tamotsu Shoya
Former Small and Medium Enterprise Agency director general
Isao Tokoro
Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University
Toru Miyoshi q
Former Supreme Court chief justice
Takuma Yamamoto
Fujitsu honorary chairman
Makoto Koga (resigned in June)
Chairman, Japan War-Bereaved Families Association
(2) Yasukuni Shrine -From battle field to where (Part 5): Both
TOKYO 00004581 003 OF 009
increasing visitors to Yushukan, prime minister's repeated visits
drawing young persons' attention
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Slightly abridged)
August 10, 2006
Since this spring, several American prominent figures have made
statement critical of Yushukan, the exhibit hall on the site of
Yasukuni Shrine.
On a TBS TV program on July 12, United States Ambassador to Japan
Thomas Schieffer stated:
"I am perplexed at the historical views attached to exhibits in
Yushukan. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has repeatedly said that
he goes to visit Yasukuni Shrine and not Yushukan. But the
historical views in Yushukan are unacceptable to us. I think they
are wrong."
Writing for the July 20 edition of the Sankei Shimbun, Deputy
Secretary of State Armitage noted:
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'Even if no problem is found with the prime minister visiting
Yasukuni Shrine, the explanations attached to some showpieces in
Yushukan on the site of the shrine hurt the feelings of Americans
and Chinese. They also go against official historical views in
Japan."
Former chief researcher Taro Nagae, 69, at the Military History
Office of the National Institute for Defense Studies, is in a
quandary. When Yushukan was reopened after being renovated in 2002,
he supervised the editing of the newly added descriptions of
historical events from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the wartime
period.
He was asked to serve as editorial supervisor by his friend, an
official of Yasukuni Shrine. He assigned the work to 10 members of
the Military History Society (with about 1,000 members), an academic
group serving as Secretariat. The work was completed only in about
three months.
Although Nagae was confident about the descriptions because "they
are all based on war histories issued by the governments of the US,
China, and other countries." But he was worried: "I do not want to
see Japan-US relations impaired. The critical remarks came from
American key persons. The bilateral relationship could be undermined
as a result of a misunderstanding. We must take some measures."
Previous Chief Priest of Yasukuni Shrine Yuzaya, who renovated and
expanded Yushukan at a cost of about 4.9 billion yen, also remarked
on a TV program on Aug. 7: "In response to the criticism that the
exhibits have gone too far, we might have to change some items on
display." Japanese authorities have reacted strongly to criticism
from China and South Korea. In contrast, they have sensitively
responded to critical comments dispatched from the US.
Yushukan was created in the early Meiji period as a museum
displaying military weapons. After the end of World War II, then
Chief Priest Nagayoshi Matsudaira, who enshrined Class-A war
criminals, reopened the hall as a financial resource to help the
management of Yasukuni Shrine. Later, previous Chief Priest Yuzawa
planned to innovate and expand Yushukan with the aim of attracting
more young people and foreigners to the hall. Although the plan
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initially met fierce reactions from representatives of shrine
parishioners claiming: "The planned exhibits are excessively
modernized and elaborate." But they accepted the plan in the end.
A movie, "Our appreciation and prayers for the souls of the war
dead," is shown in the hall, emphasizing the historical view that
the Imperial Japanese Army's wartime conduct was not wrong. The
movie was produced and edited by the conservative action group
called Japan Conference. Several executives of the group, including
its chairman Tatsu Miyashi, a former supreme-court judge, also serve
as representatives of shrine parishioners. The exhibited items are
"in accordance with the intention of former Chief Priest Matsudaira,
who rejected the judgments of the Tokyo Trials," said a former
senior shrine official. As expected, visitors to the hall continued
to increase almost every year by the tens of thousands, and the
number hit a record 360,000 last year.
The number of visitors to Yasukuni Shrine was 6 million in 2002 and
5 million in 2003. Recently, though, a growing number of people
visit there, attracted by the renovated Yushukan. On the day marking
the end of WWII, 205,000 people visited the shrine, three times more
than that day the year before. The media at home and abroad
prominently covered this news.
Some members of the group of students who had gathered Yushukan
established this February a youth group of the association
supporting Yasukuni Shrine activities (suukei-housan-kai), calling
itself "Asanagi". The group already has about 300 members, whose
average age is 30. A male college student (22) who heads the youth
group explained as follows why he joined the group: Because Prime
Minister Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine was prominently featured
by the mass media, he visited the shrine two days later, and he
found the shrine to be "wonderful."
The prime minister's continued shrine visits, which he called "a
matter of the heart," and the renovation of Yushukan resonated and
worked to amplify the troubled frequency waves at home and abroad.
With reactions to Yushukan spreading across former Japanese colonies
and WWII allies, Yasukuni Shrine has become an international issue.
In the nation, though, the prime minister's shrine visits have
contributed to drawing young people to Yasukuni Shrine.
(3) Editorial: Though he has the lead in LDP presidential race, Abe
urged to pursue serious policy debate
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
August 13, 2006
Support for Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, the frontrunner in
the September Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election,
is expanding like an avalanche, further boosting his unchallenged
lead. Fukushiro Nukaga, director general of the Defense Agency, and
former LDP Secretary General Taku Yamasaki had to give up running in
the race. The presidential election now appears likely to be a
landslide. Precisely because this is the situation, Foreign Minister
Taro Aso and Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and Abe, in
particular, should pursue a lofty policy debate in a serious
manner.
Abe on Aug. 12 stated his candidacy for the election during a town
meeting held in Shimonoseki City, his home constituency: "I would
like to do my best with my aspirations. I am resolved to explain my
hopes and thoughts to the people in early September." When former
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, Abe's archrival, gave up
running in the race, it became certain that Abe would hold a
commanding lead.
An increasing number of LDP members were increasingly gripped by the
idea that they had to jump on the bandwagon. However, due in part to
Abe's unclear stance toward his political management, there still
remained a wait-and-see atmosphere among those who were anxious
about his position regarding Asia diplomacy.
Abe has recently revealed two key messages to audiences within and
outside the party. One is on the Yasukuni Shrine issue, the primary
concern. He indicated his policy of keeping quiet regarding
Yasukuni: "I have no intention whatsoever of revealing anything
about the Yasukuni issue, including whether I will visit it or not."
It became known that Abe visited the shrine in April. However, China
and South Korea responded calmly, raising hopes in the LDP that it
might be possible to find a breakthrough in Japan's Asia diplomacy
because of Abe's stance.
The other is that he indicated his view of adopting a whole-party
approach to next year's unified local and Upper House elections.
Many LDP members have been unhappy about Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi's political method of fanning confrontation, intentionally
making enemies. However, Abe's whole-party approach has spread a
sense of relief among LDP members, serving to rapidly expand support
for him.
Attracting total support for his camp is not entirely a blessing for
Abe, though. An Abe administration would not be able to solidify its
power base with a please-everyone all-mainstream approach. Policies
set by such administration might lack impact. There may be a
possibility of the current reform policy losing force under the
cover of the whole-party system and pork-barrel politics coming back
to life.
In order to eliminate such concerns, it is necessary for Abe to come
up with a clear-cut policy and pursue a policy debate with Aso and
Tanigaki in front of the public. He needs to make specific campaign
pledges regarding fiscal reconstruction, administrative and
educational reforms, and constitutional revision. A clear-cut policy
is the best means to solidify his administration's power base.
(4) Intelligence capabilities must be sharpened: ex-cabinet
intelligence chief
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
August 10, 2006
-- What's your perspective of the post-Koizumi cabinet's challenges
from the perspective of crisis management?
Yoshio Omori, former chief of the Cabinet Information Research
Office: I hope the next prime minister will consider three points.
First, there are problems with North Korea, including its firing of
missiles. Second, there are problems with China, including the
suicide of a Shanghai Consulate General communications official. And
third, there are problems with the government's intelligence
capability.
-- How do you evaluate the Japanese government's action taken in
response to North Korea's missile launches?
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Omori: There's one thing that I can appreciate. The government
realized it and then took action right away. That's very good.
Actually, when the Miyazawa cabinet was in office, North Korea
launched a missile. After that missile launch, a foreign government
told the Japanese government that a Rodong missile was launched.
-- How about the responses of post-Koizumi candidates?
Omori: Some of them are cabinet ministers, and they stated that
North Korea should refrain from launching missiles. After North
Korea launched missiles, Japan took the political initiative and
worked on the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution.
We should appreciate this point.
-- How do you think Japan should address the North Korea issue?
Omori: When it comes to the Koizumi cabinet's North Korea policy,
its strategy has been inconsistent. Prime Minister Koizumi himself
visited North Korea and issued the Pyongyang Declaration. But why
did North Korea launch missiles? Prime Minister Koizumi made two
visits to North Korea, but there has been no dialogue follow-up.
Japan has failed to continue dialogue with North Korea while
pressuring that country. The next prime minister will have to come
up with a consistent strategy.
-- What do you think is the problem other than strategy?
Omori: Japan knew almost nothing about the abductions and missiles.
I know that Japan is incapable of gathering intelligence. I'm sorry
to say that the Koizumi cabinet is not good enough. But if Mr.
Koizumi had done his best to step up Japan's intelligence-gathering
capability like he did for postal privatization, things would be
considerably different.
-- Another question is what to do about Japan's relations with
China. This also will be a point of contention in the Liberal
Democratic Party's presidential election.
Omori: The government didn't take any resolute action when a
Shanghai Consulate General communications official committed suicide
and when a nuclear-powered Chinese submarine entered Japan's
territorial waters (in November 2004). There's also the Yasukuni
Shrine issue. But it's no good to remain indifferent like Mr.
Koizumi. In such events, Japan should file a strong protest with
China and should call for China to take measures. That's not
contradictory with friendship. Japan and China have broken off with
each other while facing off. That's the problem.
-- For example, what do you think Japan should do?
Omori: Japan should have its own cards to play against China. We
should thoroughly look into what was behind the suicide and the
nuclear sub's intrusion. These can be Japan's cards. The government
only protested. That's not good enough. That's the same as what
Japan did in the World Cup -- they didn't shoot when they had the
chance. I hope the next prime minister will take resolute action.
-- The communications official's suicide was not made known to the
prime minister until it made the news. The government's crisis
management is questionable.
Omori: We must think of how to raise the quantity of
intelligence-and how to overcome the barriers of bureaucrats.
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Information is not conveyed to those in need of it. The next prime
minister will have to create a system that will immediately bring
anything related to national security (to the prime minister).
Anyone who is suspected of leaking defense secrets must be subject
to severe punishment, and such leaks must be reported to the prime
minister. Otherwise, the government will do the same thing.
-- What do you think Japan should do to improve its
intelligence-gathering capability?
Omori: First of all, Japan should have enough manpower for
intelligence activities. Even a good analyst can do nothing without
something to analyze. North Korea recently fired missiles. However,
Japan was as usual dependent on the United States for intelligence.
The next prime minister will have to create a special intelligence
organization to analyze North Korea's intentions and strategies. The
government will also need to set up another organization like the
National Security Council (NSC) (of the United States).
-- You've advocated establishing an external intelligence agency in
order for Japan to gather and analyze intelligence.
Omori: I wonder if it's all right for us to do nothing in the face
of damage to our national security and intellectual property. It's
true that some people are calling this a spy organization, and
they're also saying that's the same as monitoring people. However,
we should let the government acquire intelligence-gathering
functions. There are also international terrorist groups, so we
should consider this in a positive way.
-- Do you mean Japan will gather foreign confidential information,
too?
Omori: No, I don't. That's impossible because Japan has not
conducted training for that. To begin with, we should stop vital
information from leaking. The Koizumi cabinet has tried to do many
things but has failed to pull itself together. I want the next prime
minister to think more about intelligence.
(5) Japan-dispatched official anti-Japanese essay
Commentary by Sankei special correspondent Yoshihisa Komori
SANKEI (Page 5) (Excerpts)
August 12, 2006
It has become increasingly crucial for Japan to dispatch its
messages to the world. It has always been important for Japan to
properly explain its case and to clearly present its views to the
international community. At a time when China and other countries
are heightening their criticism of Japan for a "revival of
militarism" that is quite the opposite of the reality in Japan, it
is indispensable in terms of Japan's national interests for it to
rebut such charges.
At this juncture, I thought that the JIIA Commentary, an
English-edition newsletter that JIIA (Japan Institute of
International Affairs, which is under the jurisdiction of the
Foreign Ministry) began this spring was coming out at just the right
timing to send such a message. Living in Washington, I could receive
their dispatch by e-mail and read the research on the institute's
website. The commentary would be regularly sent in the form of
essays written in English.
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However, on reading some of the essays, I was astonished by the
contents. The essays unilaterally condemned the thinking of the
government and ruling camp, as well as a majority of views in Japan
as dangerous, and categorized the attacks on Japan by China and
other countries as proper.
Look at the title of the essay in the May entry, "How Japan
Imagines China and Sees Itself." The essay starts out: ""Japan
watchers (in foreign countries) increasingly blame the deterioration
in Sino-Japanese relations on Japan, describing Japan's China
policies as mindless and provocative, self-righteous and gratuitous.
But in the country itself, there is scant awareness that Japan is
perceived (by some countries) as being nationalistic, militaristic,
or hawkish."
The vast majority of Japan watchers in Washington who are familiar
also with China see the current tense situation between Japan and
China as due to "China's confrontational stance" and as "a clash
between the strategic interests of Japan and China," as well as a
"China's anti-Japan national policy." Moreover, in the same essay,
such false claims are made as, "It is internationally perceived that
Japan is seen as being militaristic." In a BBC broadcast late last
year of its international opinion poll, the people of 31 out of 33
countries chose Japan at the top as "the country that has the best
influence on the rest of the world." The exceptions on the list were
China and South Korea. The departure point for JIIA's overseas
dispatch is a view that is just the opposite of international
opinion.
The same essay contained the following passages:
"'China is a threat, because it is China.' This seems to be the
underlying assumption prevailing in Japan's national security
circles."
"Critics see in Prime Minister Koizumi's stance on Yasukuni a lack
of repentance for past imperial aggression in Asia, about which
Japan has long been silent."
Both quotes are absurd remarks that are the opposite of the truth.
The thrust of the essay rejects moves in the direction of Japan
becoming an "ordinary country" from the aspect of its national
security, which can be said to be the majority view in Japan,
rejecting and denouncing them as dangerous "hawkish nationalism."
The English-language essay is filled with biased words such as
calling those who support paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine the "cult
of Yasukuni." The word "cult" is a derogatory term used to mean a
fanatical religious group such as the Aum Shinrikyo believers in
Japan.
The essays contains much too many sensational, emotional and
insulting words of the kind frequently used generally by the Western
left or by China to bash Japan, such as calling the thinking of
Japan's pragmatists "ahistorical imagination" and claiming
"selective amnesia" regarding the war by the Japanese people. In
that sense, the essay can be called "anti-Japan."
The Japan Institute of International Affairs or JIIA is a public
institution that is operated by subsidies from the Japanese
government. Its current director is Yukio Sato, a former diplomat
who once served as ambassador to the United Nations. The opinions in
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JIIA's international dispatch could be taken as the official views
of the Japanese government, ruling parties, and majority of
Japanese.
Although the English-language essay in question contains a statement
that "these are the views of the author alone," Director Sato has
stated that the intention of the JIIA Commentary was to broadly make
known the "thinking of Japan about Japan itself and toward
international affairs." Looking at the name of the author of the
essay, I was even more astounded, and yet at the same time,
convinced, for the author was Masaru Tamamoto, the English editor at
JIIA. Tamamoto ASTERISK is a long-time residence of America and is
well known as a radical leftist scholar who has often attacked the
policies of the Japanese government. In a Washington seminar in
2003, I myself heard him say such comments as, "The abduction issue
with North Korea has already been resolved, but the Japanese side is
using it as an excuse to keep a hard-line foreign policy stance";
and, "Japan should never dispatch the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq;
such a dispatch will never occur."
That Tamamoto is not only the author of an essay sent out to the
world by JIIA, he also is the senior editor there. In the April
edition, he took up the topic of criticism by Foreign Minister Taro
and others of the lack of democracy in China, and under the title,
"Japan discovers democracy," he poked fun at Japan's diplomacy
toward China now discovering that the country lacks democratic
values.
What is the reason for entrusting Japan's international messages to
someone with extreme views who rejects Japan's current diplomacy and
security foundation? I would like to send on open letter questioning
Director Sato, attaching this column.
( ASTERISK TN: Masaru Tamamoto, editor of the JIIA Commentary, was
born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, Switzerland, Egypt and the
United States. He received his B.A. degree in international
relations from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D from Johns
Hopkins University. At Princeton, he was a MacArthur Foundation
fellow in international peace and security (1988-89).) Back to Top
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