Japan PM arrives at war shrine on WW2 anniversary
Posted on: Monday, 14 August 2006, 17:46 CDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrived to pay his respects at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
His visit to the Shinto shrine, where Japanese World War Two leaders convicted as war criminals are honored along with 2.5 million war dead, is likely to provoke fury in China and the Koreas, where bitter memories of Japan's military aggression persist.
Source: REUTERS
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