5 Japanese Ministers Visit Yasukuni Shrine Today

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5 Japanese Ministers Visit Yasukuni Shrine Today

Five Japanese cabinet ministers and a group of Diet members paid tribute at Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday on the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Five Japanese cabinet ministers and a group of Diet members paid tribute at Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday on the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The five are Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma, Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani, Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama, National Public Safety Commission Chairman Jin Murai and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe. The farm minister also visited there on Aug. 6.

The Yasukuni Shrine is considered a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism. It was built to honor 2.5 million war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals who were put to justice after World War II.

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