Japanese Prime Minsitrer Shinzo Abe
The visit will come exactly one year after he took power and is expected to further inflame already-tense relations with China and South Korea.
The shrine is the believed repository of the souls of Japan's war dead, including several high-level officials executed for war crimes after World War II.
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