Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine; Takaichi sends offering - Japan Today

Japan's defense minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honoring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbors, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away. Shinjiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine took place 81 years after Japan's surrender in World War II, an…