{"id":620,"date":"2008-04-24T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T04:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/04\/24\/yasukuni-controversy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T01:26:41","slug":"yasukuni-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/04\/24\/yasukuni-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasukuni Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><> <> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yasukuni.jpg\" alt=\"yasukuni\" title=\"yasukuni\" width=\"430\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yasukuni.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yasukuni-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n(image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2005\/09\/24\/1126982262866.html\">Japan blind to a dark past<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I made &#8216;Yasukuni&#8217; for both Japan&#8217;s sake and for my sake,&#8221; said Li, the director, a 19-year resident of Japan. It took him nearly a decade to complete the work, which won the best humanitarian documentary prize last month at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The film received rave reviews when it was screened earlier this year at the Berlin and Sundance film festivals. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/11\/arts\/seno.php\">Herald Tribune<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/filmNews\/idUSHKG35790620080328\">Yasukuni&#8221; director voices fears<\/a> after HK film award<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/products\/details\/2712\">Photo of Li Ying via<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/li-ying1.jpg\" alt=\"li-ying1\" title=\"li-ying1\" width=\"278\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4433\" \/><br \/>\n(Li Ying&#8217;s next film will be about the Olympics and Tibet.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/products\/details\/2712\">John Junkerman interviews Li Ying<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some background info on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/rogers\/rogers188.html\">Yasukuni Shrine here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelpod.com\/travel-photo\/jay29\/rtw-2007\/1184336100\/yasukuni-pathway.jpg\/tpod.html\">A photo of Yasukuni Pathway<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/4793777.stm\">BBC slideshow of Koizumi past visit to Yasukuni Shrine<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/still-more-yasukuni-controversy.html\">Still More Controversy over Yasukuni Shrine&#8221;<\/a> (Cross reference to Haruki Murakami&#8217;s plea for Japanese to do more soul searching)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(image from Japan blind to a dark past) &#8220;I made &#8216;Yasukuni&#8217; for both Japan&#8217;s sake and for my sake,&#8221; said Li, the director, a 19-year resident of Japan. It took him nearly a decade to complete the work, which won the best humanitarian documentary prize last month at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/04\/24\/yasukuni-controversy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yasukuni Controversy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}