South Korea, like China, was also angered by Japan's approval of junior high school textbooks that gloss over Japan's militaristic past.

Unlike some other right-wing groups in Japan, the Bereaved Families Association is not violent and does not advocate a return to Japan's militaristic past.

Yasukuni Shrine is the symbolic center of Japan's efforts to revise its militaristic past, and lies at the heart of worsening relations between Japan and its neighbors.

Two countries, two resignations by prominent politicians, each caught in controversies defined by their nations' militaristic pasts and their futures as America's military partners.

Since World War II, Japan's flag has been criticized for its association with the country's militaristic past.

Indeed, there is a widespread feeling throughout East Asia that Japan has been slow to face its militaristic past.

To live down its militaristic past from two world wars, in 1972 West German Olympic officials intentionally played down a visible security presence during the early phase of the Games.

The museum offers the Shinto shrine's unapologetic attitude about Japan's militaristic past to crowds of visitors year-round.

Could it be that this militaristic past had come back to haunt the American dreamland superimposed atop it?

He is one of relatively few who see a problem in Japan's failure to come to terms with its militaristic past.