THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 15, 2021 at 15:20 JST
Education minister Koichi Hagiuda visits Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Two Cabinet ministers as well as former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine to honor the war dead on Aug. 15, the 76th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. [Read More]
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