Visitors flock to China memorial to Japanese official's assassin

Nice to see both sides have moved on.

Well... they still visit Yasukuni shrine. Eye for an eye I would say... but still not good to have a memorial for an assassin. Wouldn't taking the high road be better?

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander... as they say. But it demonstrates the infantilism of nationalistic pride that is rife in the region.

A memorial for a terrorist who assassinated a key figure who was reluctant on the annexation of Korea and at the same time had high regards for the Emperor. Of course, history tells us that the result ended in a hastened annexation request by the Korean counterparts with virtually no civic resistance.

I guess when a country lacks heroes like Korea, you simply create a fantasy story and make up one.

I heard Justin Bieber is on his way over to make amends for visiting Yasukuni..

Japan will never know China and Korea's pain because Japan was a colonial power, not a colonial victim.

Memorial to an assassin, eh? Well, China's already got a memorial to a mass-murderer, might as well up the stakes a bit.

How about this: You guys get to keep this memorial and Japan gets to keep Yasukuni? Deal? Oh...right. Shrines to war criminals and terrorists are only okay when they are not in Japan.

Quote: "Admission is free to the memorial at the Harbin railway station where Ahn shot Ito, and which tells his life’s story. Xinhua did not say if the visitors included regular travellers at the railway station." /end Quote.

If my experience at Shanghai Airport is anything to go by, they are counting casual passers-by. In order to change flights in Shanghai, on my arrival from Japan they made me fill in a visitors' card with an address in China, (WTF?) go out through customs and outside, then immediately back inside the same building to check in for the next international flight. ('Transit Hall' was blocked off.) That must surely put up the number of international tourist visitors to China!!!

Ahn Jung-guen was a soldier of Korean Resistance Army. He killed one of the leaders from the terrorist organization that committed atrocities against their neighboring countries. He should be given honor by all people.

Totally agreed with Daniel!

Think I'll go visit Yasukuni tomorrow - post a selfie on FB.

Assassin or resistance soldier? What you call him shows which side has "brainwashed" you.

Assassin or resistance soldier?

More like a terrorist, really.

Ahn Jung-guen was a soldier of Korean Resistance Army. He killed one of the leaders from the terrorist organization that committed atrocities against their neighboring countries. He should be given honor by all people.

Then what does that make the British who were allied with this terrorist organization at the time under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance? You are not implying we speak and write in a terrorist language do you?

Inappropriate. This is some hobby project by a nutter, right? Not an official memorial?

Xinhua did not say if the visitors included regular travellers at the railway station.

Knowing what we know about the transparency and openness of China, we can guess these numbers probably are not correct. In any case, a weird memorial...

What a small country with small people.

China creating a monument in China to honor an assassin from Korea who killed a Japanese official.

What a pathetic situation.

Communist Chinese Government will glorify anything against Japan happened in the past. That's some kind of Communist propaganda. Communism is most dangerous ideology to human kind along with Islamist extremism today.

@kobuta chan

Thats right. There's nothing dangerous about capito-fascism or other types of nationalism. China just calls itself commumist. It is in fact a totalitarian state that could never become the world's second largest economy through communism. If you want to hate something, at least know what it is you're hating.

nigelboy APR. 25, 2014 - 04:01AM JST More like a terrorist, really. Eh, for average Japanese, the name wouldn't ring a bell but yeah for right wing nutjob, your response is correct.

not good to have a memorial for an assassin.

Depends on the target. Hirobumi Ito and all Japanese colonizers of age deserved death any way it could be meted out. Its not like Ahn Jung-geun or any other Korean had the option of arresting and jailing them, any more than Claus von Stauffenberg could have done anything but try to kill Hitler.