[Teruo Kawamoto's protest tent outside Chisso Headquarters, Tokyo]

[Militarized shrine in the home of Seguro Kizu, a Tokyo baker conscripted into the Japanese army]

[Man, identified as a radical leftist, reads a speech from a scroll on May Day, Tokyo]

[Woman carrying a baby carriage in the street, Kyoto, Japan]

[Woman wearing kimonos playing musical instruments on stage, Kyoto, Japan]

Ashes of the dead are carried through the streets of Tokyo to the Yasukuni Shrine, where they will be sanctified. Some 150,000 sets of ashes have so far been deified at Yasukuni, which means in Japanese, "Shrine which guards the tranquility of the Empire"