Japan's Abe Visits Controversial War Shrine, China Outraged

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a controversial visit to a war shrine that many of Japan's neighbors see as a symbol of its militaristic past.   Abe said his early Thursday visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine was not meant to hurt the feelings of Japan's neighbors, but is a pledge that Tokyo will not go to war again.   "I… prayed for the resting of the souls of all the people whose lives were taken by war. Additionally, I vowed for a renunciation of...

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