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Tokyo – 15 August 2025
1. Wide of people outside gate of Yasukuni shrine, waiting for doors to open in order to pray for for those who lost their lives in World War II
2. Various of visitors walking inside shrine
3. Various of visitors leaving shrine after praying, some bowing in front
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Japanese mourners gathered to pray and mark the 80th anniversary of its defeat in the World War II, at Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine on Friday morning.
The shrine is considered controversial by its Asian neighbors, including China and South Korea, which see the shrine as a symbol of militarism.
The controversial shrine honors convicted war criminals among about 2.5 million war dead. Victims of Japanese aggression, especially China and the Koreas, see visits to the shrine as a lack of remorse, and visits by defense officials are considered especially controversial.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways.
Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ceremony on Aug. 15, the day then-Emperor Hirohito announced in a crackly radio message that the government had surrendered, while China showcases its military strength with a parade on Sept. 3, the day after the formal surrender on an American battleship in Tokyo Bay.
Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion that, by some estimates, killed 20 million people. The wartime experience still bedevils relations between the two countries today.
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