CultureWhy are Chinese stone lions still at Yasukuni Shrine?

Two stone lions at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine were looted by Japanese forces from Sanxue Temple in Haicheng during the First Sino-Japanese War. A Japanese civil society group has made five requests for their return without reaching agreement. Its representative, Tsuguo Tokairin, also challenges the shrine’s account of wartime history and says it now bars outside guides at its museum.

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