According to the Jiji Press and Mainichi Shimbun on the 1st, the Metropolitan Police Agency said a passerby found a graffiti called “toilet” painted with red spray on a stone pillar of a Yasukuni shrine at 6:20 a.m. and reported it to nearby police.
The Metropolitan Police Agency is investigating the case by checking the security camera video of the surrounding area, considering that it is suspected of vandalism. In particular, a video recording the situation at the time of a man scribbling is reportedly spreading on social networking services (SNS), and it is reportedly checking this.
A visitor is seen holding up the Japanese flag and the Rising Sun Flag at a 條英機 commemorating the Japanese war dead in Tokyo on August 15. In the video, the man climbs a stone pillar and takes out a spray from his pocket to write “toilet” on the stone pillar. Some Internet users who watched the video say that the suspect is a YouTuber with Chinese nationality. A blue cloth was once erected in front of the stone pillar to block scribbles from pedestrians. A gentleman’s official sprayed water and brushed it, and all the scribbles were removed at 2:30 p.m. on the day. The cloth for covering has also disappeared. The Yasukuni shrine is a symbol of Japanese militarism. It is the place where more than 2.466 million tablets of war of aggression that Japan has waged over the past 100 years, including Hideki Tojo and 14 Class A war criminals of the Pacific War, lie in state. About 20,000 Koreans who were forcibly mobilized for the war were also reportedly put together.
JENNIFER KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
