Japan Defence Minister Visits Yasukuni; Takaichi Skips
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- Japan's defense minister visited the contentious Yasukuni Shrine to war dead, a move that angered China and South Korea (per Al Jazeera/Reuters).
- Takaichi, Japan's leader, skipped the controversial shrine on the 81st anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender (per Politico).
Why it matters: The split between a minister visiting and the leader staying away reveals Japan's calibrated balancing of war-memory diplomacy on the 81st anniversary, while China and South Korea's stated anger keeps the shrine visits a recurring friction point in trilateral ties.
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