TOKYO (AFP) – Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited a controversial war shrine Wednesday, after a mass visit by lawmakers angered China and South Korea which see it as a painful reminder of Tokyo’s past aggression.
The ministers – internal affairs chief Sanae Takaichi and Katsunobu Kato, in charge of women’s empowerment – are close to conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who did not visit the Yasukuni shrine during this year’s four-day autumn festival.
Abe, often criticised for what some see as revisionist views on Japan’s wartime record, sent a ritual offering to the shrine instead.
He has not gone to the site in central Tokyo since late 2013 in an apparent attempt to ease diplomatic tensions.
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