Matsubara, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, and Hata, minister of National Land and Communications, visited the shrine for the first time since the emergence of the Democratic Party regime in Japan.

Minju Joson Wednesday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

The above-said disturbing developments in Japan indicate that they are going reckless, seized with extreme militarist hysteria, bereft of the dignity as politicians.

It is the calculation of the Japanese reactionaries that if Japan is to keep to the road of aggression as it did in the past, it should infuse militarist fever into the members of society and there is no other ideal place than the shrine.

It is the ulterior intention of the Japanese reactionaries' visits to the shrine to imbue the younger generation and other Japanese with "Yamato nationalism" craftily disguised as "patriotism" and the militarist idea with the shrine as a center, rapidly turn Japanese rightist and reactionary and thus rush headlong into overseas expansion.

The Japanese reactionaries' despicable behavior to achieve this sinister aim by bringing back the soul of the dead is sparking off derision among people.

They try to get something by scouring dumping ground of history, but this would get them to nowhere. It is nothing but a daydream of the fools. History has already sentenced Japanese militarism to death and the international community will never allow the revival of Japanese militarism.

The Japanese reactionaries would be well advised to stop at once their moves to revive the crime-woven history.