Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on October 17 sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said. No Japanese premier has visited Yasukuni Shrine since 2013 and Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida would also regularly send offerings for its biannual...

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