Koizuni should simply stop visiting Yasukuni unless the temple caretakers remove and transfer the names of the 14 Class-A war criminals.

To anyone who says that Koizumi's visits are simply Japan's culture and business, please consider the following scenarios:

A group in China or Korea enshrine the names of Shoko Asahara and other AUM cult members (these were the people who used sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and who planned to kill millions of Tokyoites with sarin) and senior government officials in those countries publically worship them as gods.

Or, foreign academics write books claiming that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are colossal hoaxes, they never even happened (apart from the issue of whether or not they were justified) and that Japan simply cooked up these fictional stories in order to make themselves appear as victims.

If the above scenarios were to occur, don't you think that many (if not most) Japanese would be upset? Of course they would.

Koizumi, Japanese ultra-nationalists and the Yasukuni temple caretakers should stop acting so insensitive and intrasigent, and show flexibility and compromise.