Agriculture minister Koizumi Shinjiro visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, while Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru sends a ritual offering through a proxy. Originally on air on August 15, 2025. Watch more on https://www.youtube.com/c/NipponTVNews24Japan | Nippon TV News24 Japan

Japan's defence minister visited the controversial #Yasukuni war shrine which honors war criminals. The visit by hawkish defence chief Tomomi Inada comes a day after she attended Prime Minster Shinzo #Abe's conciliatory visit to Pearl Harbor, the site of Japan's sneak attack which drew the US into #WWII. The shrine honours millions of mostly Japanese war dead and is a continued source friction with the country's WWII targets which suffered disproportionately under its brutal colonialism and aggr