Japan ministers visit Yasukuni a day after Japan-China talks

Sanae Takaichi, minister of internal affairs and communications, speaks to the media after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 23, 2015, the last day of the shrine's three-day annual spring festival. Earlier in the day, two other Cabinet ministers, Eriko Yamatani, disaster management minister, and Haruko Arimura, minister in charge of women's empowerment, visited the shrine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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