Kan skips visit to Yasukuni Shrine

Kan skips visit to Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki visits the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 15, 2010. Neither Prime Minister Naoto Kan nor any of his Cabinet members visited the shrine that day.

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