A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday visited Yasukuni shrine, regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by its Asian neighbors, for the first time in more than two years.The group of about 100 politicians, headed by Hidehisa Otsuji of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the Tokyo shrine in the morning to pay respects to the country's war dead.The group aims to visit three times a year for the shrine's spring and fall festivals and the anniversary of the end of World War II, but its members had not visited en masse since the fall of 2019 due to the cor…READ FULL ARTICLE
