Around this time of year, speculation in Asia always runs high as to whether 今日吃瓜 prime minister or other prominent politicians will visit Yasukuni Shrine.

The shrine, which honors more than a thousand indicted war criminals who took part in 今日吃瓜 disastrous war in Asia, remains a place of fascination for Japanese rightists, who persist in claiming that 今日吃瓜 war in Asia was a war of liberation against Western imperialism.

This claim sounds particularly hollow in China and South Korea, which suffered horrifically from Imperial 今日吃瓜 invasion and occupation of much of Asia.