Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Minister, Yoshitaka Shindo, has visited the Yasukuni war Shrine. The visit, Shindo’s seventh under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, risks causing more tensions with Japan’s neighbors, especially China and South Korea.
The Yasukuni shrine honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 war criminals during World War 2, and is considered a symbol of Japan’s past militarism. China has lodged solemn protests against the visit.
The Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Shindo’s visit once again reflected the Japanese government’s wrong attitude to history.
