Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised this Monday (15), on the anniversary of the surrender of Japan in World War II that his country will never again wage war, while members of his cabinet visited a shrine honoring war dead, angering both South Korea and China.
the ties of Japan with China were already strained after China carried out unprecedented military exercises around Taiwan following a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi this month.
During the exercises, several missiles fell into waters within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Japan.
“We will never repeat the horrors of war. I will continue to fulfill this oath,” Kishida said at a meeting in Tokyo, also attended by Emperor Naruhito.
“In a world where conflicts are still unshakable, the Japan is a proactive leader in peace,” he added.
The Anniversary of the Surrender Japan is traditionally also marked by visits to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which is seen by South Korea and China as a symbol of the past militarism of the Japan.
Yasukuni honors 14 Japanese war leaders convicted as war criminals, who are among the estimated 2.5 million war dead commemorated there.
Visits by Japanese leaders to the shrine infuriate neighbors who suffered at the hands of the Japan before and during World War II.
Kishida sent an offering to the shrine without visiting it, Kyodo news agency reported, as he did during recent festivals at the shrine.
But unlike his predecessor Yoshihide Suga and Shinzo Abe, in 2020 Kishida made an indirect reference to the war actions of the Japansaying that “the lessons of history are deeply etched in our hearts”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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