Visit the shrine, or do not. That is the question. This is just too ridiculous that nobody ever spend some time some time before reading, or writing on what really IS the problem between Japan and China. The Chinese claim that the Yasukuni shrine is not only the place to mourn the dead, but is the symbol of war. The Chinese people are supposedly showing opposition towards -- war and its brutality. The same people who let North Korea stand off of the missile launch, and develop nuclear weapons by supplying oil and money for the weapons to the Kim Jong Il regime. This is the on-going problems of today and this symbolic Yasukuni argument is not.

There are people who are responsible for the war. It certainly is not the shrine which came up with the idea of the kamikaze attacks, or suicide bombing. Vice admiral Oonishi is known to have improvised the idea and set it forth on the pilots. People around him agreed, or showed no opposition to this inhuman tactics. Suicide bombing -- people still remember the time when the officers come up in front of the class or the troops and say -- who's going? Those who survived are still telling us that -- it was hard to hold back and stay safe. Many volunteered and thousands died. Today, Iranians are recruiting students as suicide bombers in their universities. Someone must tell Iranians by now that it is not the way to go.

Japan became democratized after the war. We have the rights to vote now, male or female alike, and we voted for the Prime Minister Koizumi. He represents us. We enjoy the freedom of expression or speech -- and religion. The belief of an individual should be honored. Public money is not involved and the shrine is not affecting much of the political decisions as some religious cults do. It is no longer the portrait of the emperor that we treasure as they still do in North Korea. There is this incredible North Korean news agency that reports -- the people in North Korea are proud to rescue the portraits of Kim Jong Il before themselves.

The US Senate passed North Korea Nonproliferation Act unanimously last month. The bill is on the way to the House of Representatives. The bill will pose sanctions and stop the money flow to North Korea and stop its nuclear activities and missile production and export to countries such as Iran and Syria.