"Shrine of the Nation's Defenders" Chosen Tokyo, Nov. 26.
"Gokoku Jinja" will be the new name for the Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's pantheon atop the Kudan Heights, it was officially announced yesterday.
Choice of the name, meaning th "Shrine of the Nation's Defenders," was unanimously approved by a} special committee which met at the residence of Home Minister, Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, following frequent requests that an appropriate name be adopted.
All of the 132 branch shrines throughout the country dedicated to the fallen warriors will be standardized under the new name, it was
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