Japan commemorates 80 years since World War II defeat
Japan celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of World War II and joined thousands of visitors in a temple, where Japina’s Minister of Cabinet saw Japan’s Asian neighbors as a symbol of war -time aggression.
Shinjiro Koizumi, a contestant in the local media, a competitor of Japan’s Minister of Agriculture and a contestant in 2024 in the leadership race of the ruling liberal Democratic Party, came to the temple of Yasukuni in Tokyo on Friday.
Among the 2,5 million war dead in the temple, there are 14 war -time leaders convicted of the most serious war crimes and more than 1000 people who were guilty by the Allied courts after Japan’s 1945 defeat.
China and South Korea criticized senior Japanese authorities that Tokyo said that they said that they damaged war -time actions and diplomatic ties. The supporters say that they honor the war of Japan, regardless of the roles of the temple.
Since Shinzo Abe in December 2013, he did not visit the Japanese Prime Minister’s Temple, which was sitting in a statement of disappointment from then President Barack Obama.
The last Prime Minister, who visited Japan’s surrender on the anniversary, was Junichiro Koizumi, the father of Koizumi in 2006.
Kyodo News reported that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offer to the temple on Friday. Another proposal in October was both from South Korea, a Japanese colony for 35 years, as well as its regions II. The provocation of criticism from China, which was occupied by Japanese forces in World War II.
Ishiba is expected to meet with Lee Jae Myung, the President of South Korea when he visited Japan with the US to discuss regional security and triple ties on August 23rd and 24th.
Although the relations between Tokyo and Seoul have been frequently stretched, the two countries have deepened the increasing influence of China in recent years and the security cooperation against the threat of both by nuclear armed North Korea.
In the local media, Koizumi joined Yasukuni by Takayuki Kobayashi on Friday. A former Minister of Economic Security was also published in last year’s LDP leadership elections.
In Yasukuni, 60 national and local deputies are expected from Japan’s far -right Sanseito Party. The first side of the Japanese wants to prevent the migration, which he says is a threat to Japanese culture.
In the upper home elections of July, he won 13 new seats by supporting the LDP of IShiba.
