Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to the media after visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo October 18, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
TOKYO (Reuters) - Three Japanese cabinet members visited a shrine for war dead on Saturday a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drew angry responses from China and South Korea by sending a ritual offering there.
Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine is widely seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism and visits there by politicians anger China and South Korea, which both suffered under Japanese occupation in the last century and feel Japan has never fully atoned for its actions.
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