China lashes out at Japan war shrine visits

BEIJING: China on Monday lashed out at Japanese leaders for continuing to visit a controversial shrine which honours war criminals, saying it showed blatant disregard for the war-time suffering Japan caused. China’s foreign ministry condemned the visits to the shrine, which honours 2.5 million war dead including 14 war criminals. “This proves that they have not made the right choice according to the international community’s expectation on this very important issue,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. “As the biggest victim of Japan’s militaristic invasion, we strongly demand the Japanese government to correctly view history with concrete actions, to reflect on its invasion and no longer do things that hurt the victim countries’ people.” afp

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