90 Japanese Lawmakers Visit Yasukuni Shrine

   Tokyo, April 23 (Jiji Press)--Some 90 Japanese lawmakers Tuesday visited together war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival from Sunday.
   They are members of a suprapartisan group promoting visits to the Shinto shrine, which honors Class-A World War II criminals along with the war dead and is regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by China, South Korea and others.
   Among the visitors are Hiroshi Moriyama, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's General Council, Hiroshi Kajiyama, who holds the title of executive acting LDP secretary-general, and some lawmakers of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party).
   "We're entering a new era in which a large majority of Japanese nationals were born after the war," Ichiro Aisawa, deputy head of the suprapartisan group, told a news conference after the group visit.
   "We visited (the shrine) bearing in mind the importance of passing down to future generations the tragedy of war and the preciousness of peace," he added.

(2024/04/23-11:49)

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