Japan PM sends offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine for fall rite

TOKYO — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a ritual offering Tuesday for the fall festival at Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni shrine, seen by some of Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of the country's past militarism.

Yoshitaka Shindo, minister in charge of economic revitalization, and economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, known for her hawkish views on foreign affairs, visited the shrine Tuesday morning. The festival comes as Sino-Japanese ties have become strained due to the release into the sea of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since August, while bilateral relations between Tokyo and Seoul have rapidly improved.

Past visits to Yasukuni by Japanese prime ministers, including assassinated former leader Shinzo Abe, known as a hawkish politician, and lawmakers have drawn a backlash from China and South Korea, where memories of Japan's wartime actions run deep.On Monday, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who belongs to a conservative faction formerly led by Abe in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited Yasukuni ahead of the latest festival.

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