2 Koizumi Cabinet members visit Yasukuni on war-end day

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Hidehisa Otsuji speaks to reporters after visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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