Japanese rappers down with Yasukuni

I have looked in the China-based media and blogosphere, but haven't come across anything linking to this story yet. It's bizarre, in a very Japanese way (h/t to Japundit):

Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine has found itself with an unexpected hit on its hands -- a rap song dedicated to kamikaze pilots and using lyrics from their farewell letters written immediately before their suicide missions, according to Shukan Shincho (10/25).

"Kyoji" is a CD released this year on Aug. 15 -- the anniversary of Japan's World War II defeat -- by a group called Arei Raise (the first word a play on the words for "Heroic Spirits," the term ultranationalists use to describe the kamikaze).

There's no doubt that Japan still has a strong conservative movement (perhaps "right wing" would better describe the faction I am referring to) that maintains a strong Japanese nationalism and militarism. I actually don't find anything wrong with that, per se. It's not like nationalism is only on the rise in Japan (right, China?). Although I'm curious to know what people in China think of the song, if anything, especially knowing how controversial the Yasukuni Shrine is to people in the Koreas and China.

Supporters of Yasukuni, where the souls of Japan's war dead are enshrined, including -- to the eternal ire of many neighboring countries -- its convicted war criminals, have welcomed the kamikaze rap song.

"When the CD was completed, the group came here to dedicate it to the shrine, which led to talk of it being sold at the kiosks here," says a spokesman for a group that helps with the running of the shrine. "We played a couple of songs from the CD during a youth seminar we held here on Sept. 30. We've been doing all sorts of activities recently to try and get youth actively involved in the shrine and that was one of them."

Arei Raise can trace its origins to a song contest Yasukuni Shrine held two years ago to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the war. Yasukuni was looking for a song that would get people to love Japan and the patriotic young rappers responded.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? You can listen to the song here.