TOKYO: More than 50 Japanese politicians on Tuesday visited a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, but the new centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Cabinet stayed away. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia
from Channel NewsAsia on Tue, Oct 20 2009
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