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Politics › Fukuda says he won't visit Yasukuni on Aug 15, but justice minister will

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday he will not visit Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Aug 15, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Tue, Aug 05 2008

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