Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 28, 2020. Franck Robichon/Pool via REUTERS
The shrine is controversial with victims of Japanese military aggression in the early part of the 20th century, and especially the Koreas and China, because it honors convicted war criminals among the millions of other Japanese who died in World War II.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he has visited a shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of wartime aggression.
Abe’s visit Saturday to Yasukuni…