Japan PM sends cash offering to war-linked Yasukuni, more ministers visit

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a monetary offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday for its autumn festival, while land and environment ministers visited the site, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.Takaichi, who also leads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, paid for the offering out of her own pocket, according to senior party member Hiroshi Kajiyama. She skipped a visit to the shrine during the three-day biannual festival from Saturday."I brought the offering as a token from LDP President Takaichi," Kajiyama, who heads the par…READ FULL ARTICLE