TOKYO - Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a ritual offering Thursday to Yasukuni, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo that has long been a source of diplomatic friction with China and South Korea, both of which have criticized the routine practice as honoring a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
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