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Japanese dignitaries again flocked to the Yasukuni Shrine on the day of Japan’s defeat.

High-ranking conservative politicians of Japan, buoyed up by the wild ambition for continental aggression, frequent there on different occasions every year. It is the fact well known to the world already that what they seek is just to secure a spiritual pillar for proactively supporting their militaristic policy.

But this time the gravity of the issue is further highlighted by the group visit assuming so unusual colours.

Prime Minister Takaichi, who had made an offering to the shrine on August 15, made a bow toward the shrine, on her way to the national mourning ceremony for the war dead. She was not far from the shrine at that time.

It is something rare to be seen that the incumbent prime minister made a bow toward the shrine on the day of defeat.

As foreign media commented it as "remote tribute" and "a quarter of a step forward to pay visiting tribute", it is not difficult to see Takaichi's militaristic ambition that has gone to extremes.

Since its emergence, the Takaichi regime has pursued such extremely dangerous military policy, never to be seen in the preceding regimes, as deployment of preemptive attack weapons indispensable for launching reinvasion, modification of the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology" and its guidelines and attempted revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" for arming itself with nuclear weapons.

By paying such "surprise tribute" in that context, little short of visiting tribute, Takaichi openly revealed her intention to fulfil the "long-cherished desire" for overseas expansion at the earliest date by improving the social atmosphere of supporting reinvasion strong enough to facilitate the war preparations being accelerated by the present regime.

No wonder she neither spoke any words of reflection on Japan's history of aggression nor made no-war pledge in her address to the so-called national ceremony for mourning the war dead she attended after her "tribute" to the shrine.

On the contrary, she employed a crafty trick in her speech to evade the responsibility for the last century's wars of aggression that inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon the Asian people.

Keeping pace with the chief executive rashly behaving to deny the past crimes and revive militarism, a large number of conservative politicians vied with each other to visit the shrine and pay tribute to the A-class war criminals.

Notably, the Japanese minister of Defense, who can be said to be in charge of "national security", visited the shrine this time, too, which clearly shows the gravity of the issue.

The shameless descendants of militarism of Japan, the only country which has not yet liquidated its sinful past, are desperately "worshiping" the hideous aggressors and murderers who spearheaded the overseas invasion and working hard to ignite a revenge war. Such serious tendency constitutes a blatant challenge to the desire of humankind for global peace and security.

Japan is bound to repeat its past as it never draws a lesson but wantonly denies its past as a war criminal country and a defeated nation.

The island nation will perish in the flames of neo-militarism fanned unprecedentedly fiercely on the day of its defeat.