Japan’s new industry minister, Yasutoshi Nishimura, has become the first member of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead in Tokyo
About Yasukuni Shrine
Yasukuni is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japanese former military aggression because it honours, among some 2.5 million war dead, 14 Japanese World War II leaders convicted as war criminals by an allied tribunal.
Yasukuni was established in 1869 by Japan’s Emperor Meiji to enshrine the souls of fighters who had died in the country’s civil wars.
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