Can't find a non hysterical MSM source for this news item.
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects today at a shrine honouring Japan's war dead.
The visit to the shrine, which honours 2.5 million war dead including convicted war criminals, appears to be a departure from his "pragmatic" approach to foreign policy, in which he tried to avoid alienating neighbouring countries.
It was the first visit by a sitting prime minister since Junichiro Koizumi went in 2006.
Mr Abe, wearing a formal black jacket and striped, grey trousers, spent about 15 minutes at the Shinto shrine in central Tokyo.
TV cameras followed him inside the shrine property, but were not allowed in the inner shrine where he paid respects to the war dead.
"I prayed to pay respect for the war dead who sacrificed their precious lives and hoped that they rest in peace," he said after his visit.
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