Japan minister visits war-linked Yasukuni shrine

Japan minister visits war-linked Yasukuni shrine

Japanese education minister Koichi Hagiuda meets the press after visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, on Aug. 15, 2021. Hagiuda visited the Shinto shrine, which honors convicted war criminals along with more than 2.4 million war dead, on the 76th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

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