News Analysis: Abe ministers visiting Yasukuni Shrine contradict Pearl Harbor pledge, prove refusal to face history
2016-12-30 09:03:56 source:Xinhua News Agency
December 29, 2016
"Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visited the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned from his 'non-apology' trip to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The visit by Inada, who is a close ally of Abe, followed an earlier visit by Japan's disaster reconstruction minister Masahiro Imamura, and further proved that the Abe administration has no intention of true wartime reconciliation, but merely used the Pearl Harbor trip as a stage for its global diplomatic show.
Inada, who had in fact accompanied Abe to Pearl Harbor, visited the notorious war-linked shrine early Thursday morning and said that she put down 'Defense Minister Tomomi Inada' as her name in the visitor's log at the shrine."
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