Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday morning, in a move certain to roil troubled relations with Japan's Asian neighbors.

The visit came exactly one year after he took power and is expected to further inflame already-tense relations with China and South Korea, both of which are embroiled in territorial disputes with Japan.

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