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8月21日付インドの英字紙“The Hindu”は社説で「つづく靖国参拝トラブル」と題して、8月15日の小泉首相による靖国参拝を次のように批判した。
The Yasukuni is not just a war memorial. It is a shrine dedicated to Shinto imperialism, which drove Japanese military fascism to make war time and again on the Asian mainland and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It also features a `revisionist' historical museum.
靖国（神社）は単なる戦没者記念碑などではない。神道帝国主義に捧げられた神社なのだ。そこは日本の軍事ファシズムを駆り立てて再三、アジア大陸と太平洋の島々を戦火にさらした。その上、『修正主義』歴史観の博物館としての特徴も備えている。
こう指摘した上で、この様な性格の神社を日本の首相が参拝することについてはこう述べている。
When a Japanese Prime Minister visits the shrine, he sends out a signal that he is not uncomfortable with his country's militarist and fascist past.
日本の首相が（靖国）神社を参拝するとき、首相は自国の軍国主義的・ファショ的過去を不快には思っていないという合図を発しているのだ。
また、靖国神社に合祀されているA級戦犯を分祀すれば問題が解決するかのように考えている、一部の人々に対しても次のように指摘し、戦後の国際社会の根本に関わる問題として、次のように批判している。
They do not seem to get the point. Japan's post-War readmittance to the international community as a legitimate member was based on the principle that it would permanently renounce imperialist aggression. So long as the Yasukuni remains a monument to the ideology that spurred that aggression, the problem will remain. This is not an insignificant question in the context of the modern world.
彼らには、理解できていないようだ。合法的な一員として日本が戦後に国際社会へ再び受け入れられたのは、日本が帝国主義的侵略性を永久に放棄するという原則に基づいて、であった。靖国（神社）がその攻撃性を激励するイデオロギーを持つ記念碑のままである限り、問題は残存続する。これは、現代世界の（置かれた）状況では取るに足らない問題ではない。
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http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/21/stories/2006082102211000.htm
Continuing Yasukuni troubles
Japan has a few serious problems to sort out with China and South Korea. Its hope of entering the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member cannot be realised if the People's Republic refuses to allow it. Tokyo and Seoul need to settle the territorial dispute over the Takeshima/Tokto islets that has often led to skirmishes between their citizens. At the same time, the economic interests of the three East Asian states are closely interlocked. Given this situation, it beggars belief that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should repeatedly perform a poisonous ritual that angers the Chinese and Koreans by evoking bitter memories of World War II. Such behaviour is all the more bizarre when a majority of Japanese people are indifferent to the ritual and many deeply offended by it. Mr. Koizumi fools no one when he claims his annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine are intended merely to honour the two-and-a-half million soldiers who died in the wars fought by his country after the Meiji Restoration of 1867-68. The Yasukuni is not just a war memorial. It is a shrine dedicated to Shinto imperialism, which drove Japanese military fascism to make war time and again on the Asian mainland and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It also features a `revisionist' historical museum. Among those honoured as "kamis" (or divine spirits) at the temple are 14 Class-A war criminals. When a Japanese Prime Minister visits the shrine, he sends out a signal that he is not uncomfortable with his country's militarist and fascist past. There is no question of the present generation of Chinese and Koreans, whose grandparents and great-grandparents suffered unspeakable atrocities, tolerating such a grossly insensitive and vulgar attitude towards their sentiments.
In the wake of protests by Beijing and Seoul, some Japanese politicians and commentators have suggested the problem might be resolved if the ashes of the war criminals were taken out of Yasukuni site and interred elsewhere. They do not seem to get the point. Japan's post-War readmittance to the international community as a legitimate member was based on the principle that it would permanently renounce imperialist aggression. So long as the Yasukuni remains a monument to the ideology that spurred that aggression, the problem will remain. This is not an insignificant question in the context of the modern world. The United States is eagerly waiting for its ally across the Pacific to be more assertive in the promotion of common interests. There are also political groups within Japan that would like to amend the constitution to enable its army to take part in offensive operations. While a militarily powerful China and the U.S.-backed South Korea might have little to fear, East Asia needs to guard against any revival of adventurism. Fortunately, a majority of the Japanese too appear to believe that the spirit Yasukuni enshrines must be exorcised forever.
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