China Summons Japan’s Ambassador to Protest Visits to War Shrine
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The Chinese government summoned Japan’s ambassador to lodge a protest after a cabinet minister visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which it said symbolizes Japanese militarism.
Internal affairs minister Yoshitaka Shindo paid his respects at the shrine in Tokyo today to mark its autumn festival and about 160 lawmakers visited as a group, Kyodo News reported. Abe sent a traditional “masakaki” offering, according to an official in the shrine’s public relations department who asked not to be named because of policy.