Japan ministers visit war-related shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Matsubara (C), a state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, arrives at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012. Matsubara and transport minister Yuichiro Hata visited the World War II-related shrine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war, the first by Cabinet members under a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan that came to power in 2009.

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