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Takaichi Risks China's Wrath with Offering to Yasukuni Shrine
The offering came as the shrine opened its three-day spring festival and renewed tensions with China and South Korea over wartime memory.
- On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo as the site began its three-day spring festival.
- The site is dedicated to 2.5 million war dead, including senior figures convicted of war crimes during World War II, creating diplomatic tension with China and South Korea.
- While Takaichi routinely visited the Shinto shrine as a minister, she has refrained from doing so since taking office, following the practice of predecessors Shigeru Ishiba and Fumio Kishida.
- No Japanese leader has visited the site since 2013, when former prime minister Shinzo Abe's attendance sparked diplomatic fury in Beijing and Seoul and drew a rare rebuke from the United States.
- Takaichi previously stated she would decide on future visits "appropriately," adding the matter "should never be made a diplomatic issue," signaling her preferred diplomatic approach.
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Japan PM sends offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine for spring rite
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday as the shrine, viewed by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism, started its three-day spring festival.
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AlKhaleej TodayJapan’s Takaichi continues tradition of Yasukuni war shrine offerings despite regional tensions
TOKYO, April 21 — Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead on Tuesday that has long angered neighbouring countries but refrained from visiting it, media reports and an unnamed source close to the matter said.The Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo is dedicated to 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who have perished in conflicts since the late 19th century.This includes senior military a…
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