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Japanese lawmakers' visit to shrine for war dead stokes tensions with China

China criticises Japanese MPs' visit to a shrine for war dead, as tension festers over Diaoyus

Transport Minister Yuichiro Hata, right, visited the Yasukuni Shrine with other lawmakers. Photo: Xinhua

Sixty-seven Japanese MPs, including two cabinet ministers, visited a controversial Tokyo war shrine yesterday amid rising tensions between Japan and China over a territorial dispute in the East China Sea.

The Yasukuni Shrine visit by Transport Minister Yuichiro Hata and Postal Privatisation Minister Mikio Shimoji came just a day after the leader of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Shinzo Abe, paid homage at the shrine.