The Japanese politics thread: Old men fucking each other ITT

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Japanese politics thread: Old men fucking each other ITT

felch me daddy jr.: Oct 30, 2009

ArchangeI posted:

That said, I'd love to see pictures from Yasukuni shrine, if only for the rise in blood pressure.

The shrine itself isn't much to look at, pretty similar to any other shrine in Japan. I went there once (on January 2. no less, place was really packed as all the nationalists had come in their black vans to see the emperor's speech), and if I didn't know about it I wouldn't have guessed there was anything special about it.

There were some right-wing people selling t-shirts outside though:

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felch me daddy jr.: Oct 30, 2009

Lemmi Caution posted:

I think you may be conflating events in your memory, because there is no way the current emperor made a speech at Yasukuni Shrine.

Ah, that came out wrong. The emperor was, of course, holding his annual speech at the imperial palace. Because it's a short walk from the palace to Yasukuni, lots of people (including us) went there after the speech.

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