(2)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presence

(2)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presence

TOKYO, Japan - A group of Taiwan's indigenous people hold a protest rally in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on June 14 after giving up visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where they had planned to protest the enshrinement of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, to avoid a confrontation with Japanese rightists.

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