#Yasukuni Shrine

[eirikrjs]

What is Yascony Hill?

Yesterday a new comment on Identity Crisis 3 clued me in to something I'd never heard before about SMT4: The name "Yascony"--and that it's mentioned in a strategy guide. Obviously meant to evoke "Yasukuni", it's where the game begins with the protagonist and Issachar just chilling near its lake. Sure enough, the guide in question that contains it is the mini-guide that was included with the US first edition of the game; I could find no mention of it in the Japanese guide, artbook, or World Analyze tomes, though it's totally possible i overlooked it (check them out on Vesk's archive if you want!). Without corroboration from a Japanese source, it makes the authenticity somewhat hard to gauge, but the name itself is localized in English in the same style as the other areas of Mikado (a deliberately askew romanization as an attempt to match that the familiar Tokyo districts' names are rendered in Katakana in Japanese):

キチジョージ, Kichijōji = Kiccigiorgi

シンジュク, Shinjuku = Shene Duque

....et al. I honestly forget the others. But it should then follow:

Yascony = Yasukuni, ヤスクニ

Since the name follows that pattern, I find it hard to believe it would have been invented by Atlus USA. And, then, why would the American branch name a location after the controversial Yasukuni Shrine? Something is obviously missing here, or I missed a mention of it in JP. It fits the game's Japanese nationalist themes all too well. Weird.

[ceofyokoono]

John Lennon & Yoko Ono visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January, 1971. Yoko: I’m a Tokyo girl! It’s so nostalgic for me to be in Japan. John really loves it, he’s been eating Japanese food from morning to evening and really enjoyed going to see Kabuki. I was happiest about getting to see my mother and getting to eat her home-cooked food. I was born in Tokyo. But what I love about Tokyo now has little to do with the Tokyo I knew a long time ago. It’s to do with the soul, and the travelogue of the soul. There was a very good mixture of the spirit and the material in the sense that the material things that existed there were only a kind of expression of the spirit. And that was very interesting. Now it’s the city of the future. The neon lights are brighter than anywhere else, when you come back to New York, you literally feel darker, even in Times Square.

[inefekt69]

Yasukuni Shrine - Tokyo, Japan

[postcard-from-the-past]

Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan

Japanese vintage postcard

[artschoolglasses]

Lanterns outside Yasukuni Jinja

Tokyo, Japan

[dummy-kanji]

Yasukuni Shrine por guen-k

[hazethingshaze]

Tokyo 2022

[falseandrealultravival]

State Shinto card (verse)

Yasukuni shrine

The My number card that the Japanese government is pushing,

Due to its inadequacies, many people return this card.

Naturally. They don't even know what the word digital means

The Japanese government is responsible for everything.

One of the troubles is the wrong "tying"

Sometimes it cannot be resolved.

Once enshrined, the "Heroic Spirits" cannot be enshrined separately.

It is the same as State Shinto of Yasukuni Shrine.

In fact, the My number Card is a State Shinto card.

Since ancient times, Japan has been

A country ruled by gods unique to Japan.

It's coherent and even refreshing.

Rei Morishita

国家神道カード（韻文）

日本政府がごり押ししているマイナンバーカード、

あまりの不備に、このカードを返上する者が多い。

当然である。彼らはデジタルという言葉の意味すら知らない

日本政府に責任が全てある。

そのトラブルの一つに、間違えた「紐つけ」が

解消できないということがある。

いったん合祀すると、「英霊」は分祀できない

靖国神社の国家神道と同じだ。

実に、マイナンバーカードは、国家神道カードなのである。

日本は、太古の昔から、

日本固有の神の支配したまわれる国。

首尾一貫していて、爽やかですらある。

[rosewoodbarl]

靖国神社みたままつり / Soul Festival of Yasukuni Shrine

[hoshi-kawaii]

Yesterday I went on a fun Wikipedia article journey.

It started with Controversies of Yasukuni Shine, which led me to Hideki Tojo, which lead me to Comfort Women, which lead me to the Rape of Nanking.

There were a few others but those alone gave me PLENTY to read in terms of the history of human suffering (by the hands of other humans).

Check it out if you don't mind being severely upset/disgusted/uncomfortable or just have an interest in human atrocities.

[matsucity]

春の夜銀河の如く花浮けり

[the-skeletoninyour-closet]

And then it brought to light what a massive piece of shit he was for those who didn’t know as much about Japan’s right-wing sphere

For context on this photo shoot, 731 is a right wing dog whistle after Unit 731, a division in Imperial Japan’s military that committed some of the most *horrific* war crimes. These include human experimentation (read: torture) a la Josef Mengele. I recommend looking into these at least to understand why Chinese and Korean and other voices speak out about these, but brace yourself and don’t dive too deep unless you have a strong stomach and you’re ready.

This is pretty closely equivalent to a US president or a prime minister in the West posing in a plane or ship labeled ‘1488’. And there’s more that Shinzo has done, from publicly visiting Yasukuni Shrine where war criminals are honored and still honored, to trying to push for more militarization of Japan, to refusing refugees, to working with the Unification Church (“Moonies”) cult, to even - yes - the make more babies movement that we clown on having basis in super conservative ideas and ignoring that people are too overworked and underpaid to have kids together.

shinzo abe day was incredible. still not over seeing all the rumours about what happened, joining everyone in wondering how the fuck a shotgun assassination could have happened in japan, and then seeing the first photo of the doohickey

[koichitrsm]

[belligerentnonsense]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Yasukuni Shrine in Kudan, Tokyo, Japan

Japanese vintage postcard

[artschoolglasses]

Lanterns for the Mitama Matsuri at Yasukuni Jinja

Tokyo, Japan