has a short article about the Yasukuni shrine in the current edition. First the article explains the Yasukuni shrine in a few words:

Yasukuni, run by Shinto priests, honours 2.4m Japanese servicemen killed in imperialist wars in the 100 or so years after Japan's mid-19th century opening-up. But because 14 executed war criminals, among them General Hideki Tojo, are also enshrined there, Yasukuni has become the site for an exculpatory interpretation of the second world war that plays down or even denies the atrocities that flowed from Japan's militarism, and plays up the notion of Japan as victim not aggressor. Yet roughly 20m Asians died in the 1930s and 1940s, thanks to the Japanese, and many were enslaved, tortured, raped or subjected to medical experiments, including vivisection.

The following part was new to me (the quote was slightly edited by me to shorten it):

Opposition to a rising mood of nationalism is coming from an unlikely source from within the conservative establishment itself: the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's—indeed the world's—biggest-circulation newspaper. Under Tsuneo Watanabe, the group's 79-year-old chairman and an éminence grise within the political establishment, the Yomiuri came to be the flag-waver for a more assertive Japan, one that argued for a revision of the pacifist constitution foisted on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur in 1947, and that bristled at any foreign criticism of the Yasukuni shrine.

Let's hope, that Japan can one day also accept the history. Germany did an incredible job in that area.