TOKYO: Dozens of Japanese lawmakers including a Cabinet minister visited a Tokyo war shrine on Friday in a ritual sure to anger China and South Korea, where memories of Japan’s military and colonial record remain raw.

The capital’s Yasukuni Shrine honours millions of Japanese dead, including several senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes after World War II.

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