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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated religious offerings on Monday to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, though he did not visit it in person.

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TOKYO (AP) — The religious offerings were donated to a Tokyo shrine viewed by many as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, though he did not visit it in person

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated religious offerings on Monday to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, though he did not visit it in person.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has barred Seiichiro Murakami, a former Cabinet minister, from taking official party posts as punishment for calling slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a “traitor” to Japan.

In a letter, Seiichiro Murakami said he did not remember his remark clearly, but wanted to retract it and apologize.

Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party discuss the issue of revising the current system requiring married couples to use the same surname at a meeting at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 15. (Yuichi Nobira) Efforts to inch toward a system that would allow married couples to use separate surnames suffered a huge setback after die-hard opponents in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party staged a last-ditch offensive. The government’s draft Basic Vision for Formulating the Fifth Bas...