Beijing: China has denounced as “greatly ironic” the Japanese defence chief’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, which came shortly after she returned from accompanying Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his visit to Pearl Harbor.
“This not only reflects some Japanese people’s obstinately wrong view of history, it is also greatly ironic given the Pearl Harbor reconciliation trip,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news conference.
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