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Tokyo war shrine website under cyber attack
A Tokyo war shrine has come under intense cyber attack, with its website barraged by e-mails, a shrine official said.
The Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead, including several convicted war criminals. The website started seeing attacks after 2001, a Yasukuni official said. The attacks became heavier last September, sometimes reaching 900,000 times a minute, shutting down the site five times in 2004.
"These attacks on the Yasukuni Shrine can be taken as a malicious challenge to Japan," the shrine said in a statement on its website.
"We would like to let the people (of Japan) know the Yasukuni Shrine is under attack, which is a dirty act of terrorism that negates the order of Internet technology and society," it said.
The official said the statement was issued now to let people know of possible inconvenience in visiting the website, which offers background on the shrine built in 1869.
He said the statement was not meant to dissuade hackers.
"It would rather please them" if they thought the shrine was begging them to stop, the official said.
A typical attack is to send bogus e-mails using the Yasukuni Shrine's address to a large number of fictitious accounts, causing mail servers to pass a flood of error messages to the Yasukuni site, the shrine said.
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