TOKYO: Japan’s premier sent a ritual cash offering to a controversial Tokyo war shrine to mark the end of World War 2 Thursday but did not visit in person amid heightened tensions with South Korea.
Shinzo Abe sent an aide to Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan’s military past, according to his office, but once again stayed away from the site that honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals.
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