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Japan’s Kishida sends offering to a controversial war shrine

People visit at Yasukuni Shrine on the 77th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2022 [Issei Kato/ Reuters]

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has sent a ritual offering to a controversial shrine that honours the country’s war dead but is seen as a symbol of past militarism.

Kishida sent a “masakaki” ceremonial tree on the occasion of the Yasukuni shrine’s autumn festival on Monday.

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