Yasukuni homepage hacked
December 25th, 2008 by James
Fuji TV reports that the Yasukuni Shrine’s homepage has been hacked:
The shrine’s website was replaced with a page containing the user names of the hackers who took it down and the date 12/24/2008. According to the Fuji TV report, the hackers also left an image of the Chinese flag on the site.
Update: Check out China Smack for some of the Chinese reactions to the hacking incident.
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Good to hear. That shrine is a memorial of hatred. This shouldn’t be classified as “anti-Japan”.
I wouldn’t say it was a memorial of hatred. The issues that surround the shrine have little to do with the origins of the shrine and the reasons it was built.
How is it a memorial of hatred? It’s easy to use bombast, but hard to back it up with facts.
It’s Anti-Japanese uber-conservative nationalism, anyway.
The school I studied at in Tokyo was pretty close by to Yasukuni, so my club went to visit the “historical” museum there to provoke a discussion.
I still laugh in mild horror, remembering how it describes the Nanjing Massacre in one paragraph as Japan putting down a rebellion. That or how Japan was forced into WWII by the unfair taxes the US and other western countries placed on them.
Expansionism? Torture? What’s that?
That said, I do hope that they catch these guys. It’s all good and fine to protest the shrine, but hacking like this is a crime. I don’t feel a great deal of sympathy for the people who support Yasukuni and what it stands for, but you can’t have a precedent of not punishing people for a criminal action like this.
Yeah, very mature act…
lmao I think China should move on! HISTORY is HISTORY. No need to bring old issues.
yeah, history is history. besides, look at what they did to tibet.
Tibet? What, offered freedom from the caste system? Do you not know that people were actual slaves in Tibet before China took over? this whole ‘free tibet” is run by a bunch of dumbass western people that couldn’t even find Tibet on a map, much less know the history of Tibet.
Oh, reeeeeaaaaalllly? So, the Chinese are their liberators, eh?
If y’all are so awesome and did such a great thing for Tibet, then, why don’t you let the Tibetans vote for which form of government they want then?