靖国神社
Traditional form:
靖國神社
Pinyin (reading):
Jìngguó Shénshè
Definitions:
- Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals
Characters:
- 靖 - to pacify, to appease; calm, peaceful
- 国 - country, nation, state; national
- 神 - god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 社 - group, organization, society; a god of the soil
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