Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito (in a file photo taken in 1988) was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history, according to the diaries kept by Ryogo Urabe, a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency. (Kyodo)

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

TOKYO, Japan - A photo taken on April 26 shows a set of diaries kept by Ryogo Urabe, a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency. The diaries, donated to the major daily Asahi Shimbun, indicated that Japanese Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history. (Kyodo)

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in February 1982 shows Emperor Hirohito and Ryogo Urabe (2nd from L), a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency, leaving the Diet building after an opening session of parliament. Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history, according to the diaries kept by Urabe. (Kyodo)

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war crimina

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in 2000 shows Ryogo Urabe, who served Emperor Hirohito as a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency, from December 1969 to February 2002. The diaries kept by Urabe indicated that Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history. (Kyodo)

China party official favors option of separating Class-A crimina

China party official favors option of separating Class-A crimina

BEIJING, China - Makoto Koga (L), former Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, is in talks with Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 19. Koga, who met Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, earlier in the day, quoted Wang as telling him that the idea of separating Japan's Class-A war criminals from the war dead enshrined at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine ''is one good direction if it is acceptable in Japan.'' (Kyodo)

China party official favors option of separating Class-A crimina

China party official favors option of separating Class-A crimina

BEIJING, China - Makoto Koga (L), former Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, and Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong pose for photos prior to their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 19. (Kyodo)