Japan PM sends offering to controversial shrine honouring war dead

Caption A 'masakaki” tree offering, center, to Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, is placed as a man prays at the Shinto shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2021. - AP

TOKYO (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent a ritual offering Wednesday (April 21) to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, a move likely to anger China and South Korea as it honours war dead, including perpetrators of Japan's World War II atrocities on its neighbours.

The Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo honours some 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who perished in the country's wars since the late 19th century.