Overseas trip to keep Japan defense chief away from Yasukuni

Overseas trip to keep Japan defense chief away from Yasukuni

Tomomi Inada, Japan's new defense minister, speaks to reporters during her visit to an Air Self-Defense Force base in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Aug. 12, 2016. Her ministry said the same day that Inada will go on an overseas trip that will prevent her from visiting Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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