Abe sends ritual offering to Yasukuni

Abe sends ritual offering to Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 15 Kyodo - Yasutoshi Nishimura, aide of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2016, the 71st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, to make a ritual offering on behalf of Abe as head of the Liberal Democratic Party, not prime minister.

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