Lee Hee-ja and the shrine

Lee Hee-ja's father was a Korean conscript in the Japanese army. She wants to remove her father's name from Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, Japan's central shrine for its war dead.

Ms Lee's story forms part of our essay entitled "Asia's second world war ghosts". To read the essay in full, please go to:
http://www.economist.com/news/essays/en/asia-second-world-war-ghosts

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