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Looking out across Aizu Wakamtsu |
In actual fact it was the town that was
ablaze and not the castle (on the horizon, just below the boys right
elbow)
whose forces held out for weeks |
Local tour guide re-enacts the
disembowellment
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Close up of the inscription on the
Italian monument |
The Italian Monument - a bronze eagle
mounted atop a column taken from Pompeii |
Monument (black granite with Iron Cross
inscription) from the German military |
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A crowd of tourists watches the re-enactment.
Audience response varies from applause to tears. |
Allo spirito del Bushido
'To the Spirit of the Samurai'
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Yasukuni Jinja. the controversial war shrine
in Tokyo were the spirits of those who died fighting for the
Emperor are believed to rest. Given the postwar constitutional obligation
to separate the Shinto church from the State, visits by politicians to the
shrine are a sensitive and divisive issue in both Japan and the rest of
the Far East. |
