yasukuni

Koizumi's visits to the shrine in central Tokyo have soured relations with China, South Korea and other Asian countries. The governments of China and South Korea have said the visits show Japan hasn't fully atoned for the atrocities committed when the Japanese occupied much of Asia before defeat in WWII.

Koizumi has visited Yasukuni, which means peaceful nation in Japanese, five times since becoming prime minister in 2001. A visit in October last year prompted South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun to scrap a summit with the Japanese leaderbloomberg

小泉さんが敗戦記念日に靖国参拝するかもしれないという記事ですが、敗戦記念日になるかいなかは別にしてするでしょうね。韓国では高血圧の薬が売れるかもしれない。
ところで、この記事比較的中立的です。ちゃんと靖国の意味まで明記している。BBCやニューヨークタイムズとはひと味違いますね。