Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo leaves after visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo October 18, 2013 in this picture provided by Kyodo. REUTERS/Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshitaka Shindo and more than 100 other lawmakers visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Friday, a move likely to anger Asian victims of Japan's past aggression.
The visits came a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his third ritual offering to the shrine since returning to office in December. Abe has not visited the shrine in person to avoid further straining ties with China and South Korea.
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