Shinzo Abe has become the first Japanese prime minister to visit Yasukuni shrine in seven years, provoking anger in China where the controversial war memorial is reviled as a symbol of Japanese imperialism.
Mr Abe worshipped at the shrine on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of his administration. Members of his cabinet had visited Yasukuni on significant dates this year, but the premier himself had stayed away out of what analysts and government officials had said was deference to Japan’s Asian neighbours.
Yasukuni houses the souls of 2.5m soldiers killed in various military campaigns, in addition to 14 men convicted as Class-A war criminals by the Tokyo War Tribunal.
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