Yasukuni Kaikan — Attraction in Tokyo

A museum that explains Japanese wars from the 1800s to WW2. The entrance hall is free and contains dome good exhibits. It has toilets, a small cafe and a souvenir shop. You have to pay to enter the main museum. It is surprisingly large and has lots of exhibits. It is very much told from the Japanese viewpoint. The main history boards are in English. The boards with the artifacts are only in Japanese. I used an online translator, but it did slow things down. It is a shame the information is not translated as there are interesting stories to tell. Towards the end, there are photographs of all the Japanese killed in action. It is quite sad seeing all this lost potential. Many were barely out of childhood. The area is fully accessible to people with disabilities You are only allowed to photograph in...

Sadly it’s really disappointing to see how the museum narrates the wars invading other countries. Many moments I stopped, thought and easily found logic issues and facts not mentioned which turn things into very different stories. Seeing invasions as glory of nation and claiming it was for protecting our beautiful homeland is terrifying. I recommend everyone to visit here, to understand how the mind behind this museum see things, and keep cautious against it. Peace is hard to keep. We should...

A beautiful museum with utterly unique historical artifacts, but they deliberately offer an irresponsibly skewed and misleading view of some historical events. The Kwantung Army's invasion of China is blamed on Communists, Chiang Kai-shek is painted as a communist sympathizer (a frankly laughable claim), and the Nanking Massacre is described as a fair punishment of Chinese soldiers alleged, without evidence, to be franc tireurs hiding among the civilian population. There are exhibits and artifacts there that can be seen nowhere else on Earth, and it's a shame they're being used to promote such a dishonest narrative.

全くユニークな歴史的遺物を備えた美しい博物館ですが、それらは意図的に、いくつかの歴史的出来事の無責任に歪曲された、誤解を招くような見方を提供しています。 関東軍の中国侵攻は共産主義者のせいである、チェンカイシェクは共産主義者の同情者として描かれている（率直に笑わせる主張）、そして南京大虐殺は証拠なしにフランの疲れ目であると主張された中国人兵士の公正な罰として説明されている 民間人の間に隠れている。...