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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mari Yamaguchi

Japan PM sends offerings to controversial Tokyo shrine

Kyodo News

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated religious offerings on Friday to a Tokyo shrine that China and the Koreas consider a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism.

Kishida donated Shinto “masakaki” ornaments for Yasukuni Shrine’s biennial festival, as he has since becoming prime minister in October 2021. The donations are seen as a gesture toward conservative governing party lawmakers and voters.

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