7 cabinet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

7 cabinet members visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Seven cabinet members visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, dedicated to Japan's war dead, on Aug. 15, on the 54th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Seiko Noda (R) is among the seven ministers. Before and during World War II the shrine was a bastion of government-sponsored Shintoism and a symbol of Japanese militarism.

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