Around 70 Japanese lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its annual autumn festival on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering, shunning a visit himself.Yasukuni, viewed as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism by neighboring countries, has been a source of diplomatic friction with China and South Korea, both of which suffered Japanese aggression before and during World War II. The Shinto shrine honors convicted war criminals along with millions of war dead.Seoul expressed "deep concern and di…READ FULL ARTICLE
