Politicians' offerings glorify war of aggression, undermine pacifist Constitution

Takakage Fujita, secretary-general of the Association for Inheriting and Propagating the Murayama Statement, criticized the Yasukuni war shrine for distorting Japan's modern history and glorifying its war of aggression. He said Japanese politicians should neither visit the shrine nor make ritual offerings, arguing that such acts betray the spirit of Japan's postwar pacifist Constitution.