Past visits by top leaders to Yasukuni, which honours convicted war criminals, have angered Japan’s neighbours.
The new leader of Japan’s governing party, Sanae Takaichi, has decided not to visit a controversial World War II shrine in Tokyo, as uncertainty remains over whether she will be appointed prime minister ahead of a visit by United States President Donald Trump before the end of the month.
Takaichi, 64, seen as an arch-conservative from the right of th
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