Note it down here for some knowledge of Yasukuni,
they count “becoming gods” number as “柱=hashira”, which measure has been taken only for using to count “god's number”, like “1 hashira, 2 hashira, 3 hashira”, which people mostly died on duty, they all became gods instead of giving up own lives.
There're 2,466,532 hashira of the gods named on their registration books, including over 28,000 of Taiwanese, and 21,000 of Koreans, according to an amount report of 2004, cited from “靖国問題=The Yasukuni Issue”written by author Tetsuya Takahashi.
There had been many of disputes happened between Yasukuni and the bereaved families who don't want their family member to be deified as one of the Yasukuni gods, for example, a lawsuit of Taiwanese people might have been known well, also certain people of Christians, or Buddist, are skeptical with the shrine, or critical as well, all mentioned in this book.
Yasukuni, had been a totally religious facility of the Japanese Imperial religion “神道=Shinto”, which was set up for the sake of war enforcing mostly, at early age of the Meiji era.
Nowadays, it should be kept staying as one of the places just for religious retual doing, but seems it's not, especially these days.