For 10 points, name this Shinto shrine that is infamous for honoring Japanese war criminals.
Li Ying's 2007 documentary about this site opens with footage of a 90-year-old swordsmith at work. A plan to raze this site and replace it with a dog-racing track was aborted thanks to a letter written by Vatican ambassador Bruno Vittel. On its grounds, a bronze statue of a homing pigeon atop a globe sits adjacent to a statue of a German shepherd. The most recent addition to this site was a memorial to Radhabinod Pal, the lone dissenter in a 1946 trial. In 1978, it was the site of a secret ceremony at which a head priest consecrated the memory of fourteen men given the designation "Class A" by the IÂ·MÂ·TÂ·FÂ·E. Every August 15, this site is mobbed by journalists eager to report on which politicians visit, as Junichiro Koizumi did annually during the early 2000s. For 10 points, name this Shinto shrine that is infamous for honoring Japanese war criminals.
Li Ying's 2007 documentary about this site opens with footage of a 90-year-old swordsmith at work.
Yasukuni Shrine