Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to Britain, wrote in The Telegraph last week that the action of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visiting the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo is similar to the haunting of Lord Voldemort, the villain in the best-selling children's series Harry Potter by author J.K. Rowling.
Liu wrote in The Telegraph: "If militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of horcrux, representing the darkest parts of that nation's soul."
A horcrux pertains to a powerful object in which Voldemort hid fragments of his soul to attain immortality.
Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Hayashi responded and wrote in The Telegraph that fears of rising militarism in Japan are unfounded given the Japan's postwar record of commitment to peace.
China reacted when Prime Minister Abe visited the Yasukuni war shrine and the visit resulted in the escalation of tensions over a territorial dispute between the two countries. News reports said that the relations of the two Asian powers have reached its new low when China announced its air defense identification zone that covers territories including those of Japan.
In a previous Jobs & Hire report, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Qin Gang said that "They [Japanese] are the people who masterminded, launched and carried out the war of aggression against China. Their hands are covered with the blood of the victimized peoples. They are fascists. They are the Nazis of Asia."
Japanese politicians' visits to Yasukuni have long caused friction with China and both Koreas, the report said. It is a very critical issue to begin with because of the 2.5 million war dead enshrined there that includes 14 class A war criminals from World War II. Among the dead were national leaders who were either executed or died in prison or during their trials after World War II. Japan colonized Korea and occupied parts of China, often brutally, before and during World War II.
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