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Symbolic image: Takaichi sends Yasukuni offering on 81st surrender anniversarySymbolic image

Takaichi sends Yasukuni offering on 81st surrender anniversary

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Japan's prime minister Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, 81 years after the surrender, but stayed away herself. Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited in person.

Takaichi visited Yasukuni several times before taking office last October but has stayed away since; she paid for the offering herself as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a senior party executive said. Koizumi is the first sitting defence minister confirmed to visit on the anniversary since Minoru Kihara on 15 August 2024, now chief cabinet secretary. The shrine honours leaders convicted as war criminals, and visits draw rebukes from China and South Korea.

Beijing warns of 'neo-militarism'

China's defence ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi warned on Friday, 14 August against a resurgence of "neo-militarism" as Tokyo prepares a record defence budget, Global Times reported. Japanese scholars bowed before Nanjing Massacre victims the same day.

Ishiba urges honesty about the war

Former prime minister Shigeru Ishiba told Nikkei the same day that Japan must look its past in the eye, a sense of responsibility he traces to an admonishment by Singapore's late leader Lee Kuan Yew.

Other opinions

Global Times casts the anniversary as unrepented war crimes and rearmament; Nikkei and the South China Morning Post report who attended the shrine. TASS omits Yasukuni, marking Korea's liberation from Japanese occupation.

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