Students in Japan take part in overtly spiritual rituals at all the memorial sites related to World War II. Considerable international ire arises when Japanese politicians make official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which memorializes every single Japanese soldier killed in war since the 1850s including those adjudged to be war criminals. In November 2008, the […]
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Teenagers engage in formal group rituals at the memorials associated with key sites –delivering cranes to a memorial in Hiroshima, for example, or wreath laying at the Mall memorial sites in Washington DC. In addition, these days the sites provide opportunities to enter more deeply into the lives of specific people whose death is memorialized […]
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