Taiwan ruling party legislators visit Yasukuni Shrine

Taiwan ruling party legislators visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Su Chin-chiang (C), chairman of the Taiwan Solidarity Union, a ruling coalition partner, and several other party legislators visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 4. They were the first leading Taiwan politicians to visit the shrine since it was disclosed in the late 1970s that Class-A World War II war criminals had been added to the list of those enshrined there, according to party officials.

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