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This photo shows a "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, and another ritual offering by one of his cabinet members on the occasion of an annual Shinto spring festival of rites at the shrine in Tokyo, Friday, April 21, 2023. The offering reads, "Prime Minister Fumio Kishida." Kishida donated ritual offerings Friday to the Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Kishida donated “masakaki" ornaments of the Shinto religion to mark Yasukuni Shrine's spring festival. (Fumine Tsutabayashi/Kyodo News via AP)

This photo shows a "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, and another ritual offering by one of his cabinet members on the occasion of an annual Shinto spring festival of rites at the shrine in Tokyo, Friday, April 21, 2023. The offering reads, "Prime Minister Fumio Kishida." Kishida donated ritual offerings Friday to the Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Kishida donated “masakaki" ornaments of the Shinto religion to mark Yasukuni Shrine's spring festival. (Fumine Tsutabayashi/Kyodo News via AP)

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