The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japanese minister visits war-linked Yasukuni shrine before festivalTOKYO - Yasutoshi Nishimura, economy, trade and industry minister, visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Friday ahead of its autumn festival next week, sources close to him said.Past visits by Japanese leaders and lawmakers to the Shinto shrine, which honors convicted war criminals along with the war dead, have riled Japan's Asian neighbors as they view it as a symbol of the country's past militarism.---------…READ FULL ARTICLE