Japanese industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday visited Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by its Asian neighbors.The visit to the Shinto shrine, which honors convicted war criminals along with more than 2.4 million war dead, came ahead of the 77th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II on Monday. He is the first minister known to have visited the shrine since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government was launched in October last year."I resolved to make utmost efforts for the peace and development of Japan, also thinking of the lat…READ FULL ARTICLE
