TOKYO: US President Barack Obama’s Asian tour starts in Japan on Wednesday, lifting the lid on a bubbling cauldron of regional animosities and exposing historical rifts.
Obama touches down in Tokyo after nearly 150 lawmakers paid homage at a controversial war shrine seen by neighboring nations as a symbol of Japan’s brutal imperialist past, and shortly after the prime minister made a shrine offering.
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