TOKYO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida despatched a ritual providing to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, because the nation marked the 78th anniversary of Japan’s give up in World War II.
Kishida despatched the “masakaki” providing to the shrine, a logo of Japan’s previous brutal militarism, in his capability as chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
While Kishida has not visited the infamous shrine in particular person, one in every of his cupboard members, financial safety minister Sanae Takaichi paid homage on the shrine.
Koichi Hagiuda, chairperson of the LDP’s Policy Research Council, additionally visited the shrine on Tuesday.
The Yasukuni Shrine, situated in central Tokyo, honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese conflict criminals from World War II. It has lengthy been a supply of diplomatic friction for Japan and its neighbors.
Visits and ritual choices made by Japanese officers to the controversial shrine have persistently sparked criticism and damage the emotions of the folks of China, South Korea and different nations brutalized by Japan through the conflict.