Yasukuni becomes a controversy again

Posted on : 2014-08-16 14:04 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

Around eighty members of the Japanese Cabinet and Diet pay their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Aug. 15. Takaichi Sanae, chair of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, (second from the left) led their visit. Visits to Yasukuni by Japanese politicians are controversial, as enshrined there are Japanese Class-A war criminals who committed atrocities during Japan’s imperial era. (Reuters/Yonhaps News)

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