Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan’s conflict useless, together with 14 Class-A conflict criminals, in Tokyo, Japan. /VCG
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made a financial providing to Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, a logo of Japanese militarism and wartime aggression.
Takaichi made a “tamagushi” ritual providing to the war-linked shrine by means of senior officers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on the event of the 81st anniversary of Japan’s unconditional give up in World War II, Kyodo News reported.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited the shrine the identical day, public broadcaster NHK reported.
It marked the primary go to by an incumbent Japanese protection minister to the shrine on the anniversary of the tip of WWII since then Defense Minister Minoru Kihara visited the shrine on the identical event in 2024.
Several senior lawmakers of the ruling LDP likewise paid visits to the controversial shrine on the day, NHK reported.
Chen Xi, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense, mentioned at a press briefing Friday that vigilance is required in opposition to risks posed by Japan’s neo-militarism, in response to a question concerning the record-high price range Japan’s Defense Ministry will submit for fiscal yr 2027.
Chen famous that earlier than unconditional give up, Japanese militarists plunged Asia into an abyss of bloodshed and catastrophe. Yet after defeat, Japan has lengthy condoned right-wing forces whitewashing and denying crimes of aggression, sought each means to interrupt free from the pacifist Constitution and its defense-oriented precept, and tried to problem the post-war worldwide order with out actually drawing classes from historical past.
“We urge the Japanese side to earnestly reflect on itself, recognize and atone for its crimes, adhere to the post-war international order and stop its dangerous acts of remilitarization. Any return to the wrong path will bring a more crushing defeat and a more complete reckoning,” Chen mentioned.
Yasukuni Shrine honors 14 Class-A conflict criminals convicted after World War II, and it has lengthy been a supply of diplomatic pressure between Japan and neighboring nations.
Visits and ritual choices by Japanese officers on the shrine have repeatedly drawn home and worldwide criticism, notably from nations comparable to China and South Korea, whose folks suffered drastically beneath Japan’s wartime aggression.
(With enter from Xinhua)
Source: CGTN