Japan PM Suga Sends Offering To Controversial War Shrine
October 18, 2020
4:52 pm
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent a ritual offering Saturday to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, which is seen by neighbouring countries as a symbol of the nation’s past militarism, especially during World War II.
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Yasukuni honours some 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who perished in the country’s wars since the late 19th century.
But it also honours senior military and political figures convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal after WWII.
The prime minister sent a sacred “masakaki” tree in the name of the prime minister …
