This series of five brochures includes How was the Yasukuni Shrine Established, What is the Relationship between the Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s Culture and Religion, What was the Role of the Yasukuni Shrine in the War of Japan’s Invasion against China, What was the Difference between the pre-war Yasukuni Shrine and the post-war Yasukuni Shrine and Why did Worshipping the Yasukuni Shrine Become a Sensitive Topic. They introduce the history of the Yasukuni Shrine and its influence on the Japanese society, expose the real side of the Yasukuni Shrine, and thus explain to the world why China opposes important Japanese political figures’ worshipping of the Yasukuni Shrine.

Bu Ping is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, mainly studying the history of China-Japan relations, the history of Northeast Asia’s international relations, the history of Japan’s invasion of China and the history of the War of Resistance against Japan. He wrote Haunted Sacrificial Site – The Yasukuni Shrine and Japanese Militarism, Japan’s Chemical War during World War II, 100-Year History of the Northeast, etc.