Criticisms regarding Prime Minister Koizumi's planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine are recently heard not only from the governments of China and Korea, but also from the U.S. Government and Japan's business world. For the Prime Minister to visit a shrine that rewards Class-A war criminals who led the aggression against Asian countries as “spirits of the war dead”, violates not only the Peace Principle, adopted in reflection of wartime aggression, and the constitutional principle of keeping religion and state separate.