Tokyo (AFP) - Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the World War II Saturday under criticism from neighbours China and South Korea which said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech failed to properly apologise for Tokyo's past aggression.
In a move likely to further strain relations with its neighbours, a pair of cabinet ministers visited the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which neighbouring countries see as an ugly symbol of Tokyo's militarist past.
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