Korea slams Japanese minister, lawmakers’ war shrine visit
Foreign affairsOct 18, 2013
Seoul on Friday condemned the visit by a Japanese cabinet minister and some 150 lawmakers to the country’s controversial war shrine that it claims glorifies Tokyo’s history of aggression. The worship led by Yoshitaka Shindo, minister for internal affairs and communications, came the day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual gift to the Yasukuni Shrine to mark the onset of an annual autumn festival. The Tokyo temple reveres about 2.5 million Japanese war dead including top colonial leade