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i'm sorry, i must have missed that the popular view is that the shrine is for all those who died in wars all over the world, regardless of the country they were fighting for.

what many of those being negative to the yasukuni shrine argue is that (in no particular order and not exclusively):

1. it enshrines war criminals, convicted by a court recognised by Japan
2. the war criminals did not die in a war, they died during peace time. only those who died in war should be enshrined
3. state and religion is separate in Japan, the shrine is a religious monument.
4. the war criminals were enshrined years after their death
5. the yashukan, the shrine-owned museum, has a very one-sided presentation of the second world war, and is also sometimes accused of revisionism