PM Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledges reporters after paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. The visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Class-A World War II criminals along with Japan's war-dead was the first by an incumbent premier in seven years.

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