Yasukuni homages show how hollow Abe's words were

'For the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, I am about to take up my calling in the eternal great cause in the skies of the decisive battle to destroy the Americans and British. There is no greater long-cherished desire for a man."

These words come from a final note to his family members written by Tetsuji Kizaki, a Japanese solider who was killed on Mindoro Island in the Philippines on January 3, 1945 at age of 23.

This note is the pick the Yasukuni Shrine is displaying on the way to its main hall this month.