The Asianist

Earlier I wrote about the problems associated with Yasukuni.

Now, it seems they finally listened. Angry Chinese Blogger reports:

After many years of public and private debate, and nearly 25 years of protests by neighboring China, it has been announced that Tokyo is to form a cross party committee of 100+ lawmakers, drawn from all sides of Japan's political system, to once and for all deal with the thorny issue of providing Japan with an internationally acceptable national war memorial that is free of the controversies that have wracked Yasukuni.

This being Japan, reform of any kind will take place at a glacial speed, but it is a welcome step nonetheless. Once the Yasukuni issue is settled "more or less," China would have less excuse for its state-sponsored crude nationalism and xenophobia.