South Korea's foreign ministry condemns the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for sending an offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, demanding Japanese politicians to confess their country's wartime crimes.
Yasukuni Shrine is regarded as the most notorious Japanese shrine worldwide, as each and every visit here by officials upsets and incenses Japan's neighboring countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine through his aide Kouichi Hagiuda on the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender to the World War II.
Internal Affairs Minister Yoshitaka Shindo and others pay respects at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the 69th anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender.
Former Imperial Japanese Army soldier said he finds troubling echoes in Tokyo's policy shift away from the pacifist ideals adhered to after 1945.
Tadakuma Iwai, 91, who served as a kamikaze pilot in World War II and is now a professor at Japan's Ritsumeikan University said being a kamikaze pilot is not a noble thing.
Files on 10 Japanese war criminals are to be released by the Shandong Archives Bureau between Aug 15 and 24 to mark the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.
Yasukuni was a Shinto site where Japan honored its fallen soldiers. Now it pays homage to war criminals. Those prime ministers who make pilgrimages to the shrine should be publicly criticized.
Tomiichi Murayama, now 90, recalled in an exclusive interview with China Daily at his home in Oita, a city near Usa.
China remains crucial for Japanese enterprises despite strained relations between the two largest economies in Asia and the sharp decline of Japanese investment in China, according to the Japanese consul-general in Shanghai.
Ministry of National Defense spokesman says Japan's defense white paper "plays the same old tune by making presumptuous comments" about China's military development.
Sino-Japanese relations are now at their most strained since the resumption of diplomatic ties in 1972, China's think tanks say.
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