Nakasone's Visit to Wartime Shrine Criticized

In a move condemned by Buddhists, Christians and Japan's opposition parties, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Thursday became the first postwar Japanese leader to pay an official visit to Yasukuni Shrine, the headquarters of Japan's wartime emperor-worship and militarism.

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