Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo targeted by graffiti again

By AJU PRESS Posted : August 19, 2024, 14:02 Updated : August 19, 2024, 14:04
People gather in mass to visit the Yasukuni shrine where Japans war dead including convicted war criminals are enshrined August 15 2024 Yonhap
People gather to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, where Japan's war dead including convicted war criminals are enshrined, on Aug. 15, 2024. Yonhap
SEOUL, August 19 (AJU PRESS) - Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine was hit by another graffiti attack early Monday, prompting a police investigation, Kyodo News reported.

A shrine employee discovered Chinese characters and Latin alphabet letters, including the word 'toilet' in Chinese, written in black on a stone pillar at the entrance around 3:50 a.m. local time. The incident follows a similar defacement in June, when the word 'toilet' was spray-painted in red on the same pillar.

The June attack led to the indictment of a Chinese man living in Japan for property damage and desecration of a shrine. Two other Chinese men are wanted in connection with that incident, which gained attention after a video on Chinese social media appeared to show a man urinating on the shrine's name engraving.

Yasukuni, which enshrines Japan's war dead including convicted war criminals, has long been a source of diplomatic tension between Japan and its Asian neighbors, particularly South Korea and China.
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