Prime Minister Kishida makes offerings to Yasukuni Shrine...will not visit the shrine in person - also reported in South Korea

It was also reported in South Korea that Prime Minister Kishida made an offering on the 17th to Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Class A war criminals from the Pacific War are enshrined, but that he does not plan to visit the shrine in person.
According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun and other sources, Prime Minister Kishida inscribed a tree with the name ``Fumio Kishida'' at Yasukuni Shrine on the same day as the shrine's annual autumn festival.
They offered offerings of potted plants called ``Masakaki'' with tags attached. Immediately after Prime Minister Kishida took office, he has made offerings at every spring and autumn festival.
Prime Minister Kishida does not plan to visit the shrine in person. During their terms of office, successive Japanese prime ministers
Worried about the backlash, he has avoided visiting the shrine in person. The last incumbent prime minister to visit Yasukuni Shrine was Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2013. However, the act of making offerings to Yasukuni Shrine was itself a war crime that led to the war of aggression.
It has the meaning of commemorating the death of the deceased, and opposition from South Korea and China is expected. Yasukuni Shrine enshrines 14 Pacific War Class A war criminals, including Hideki Tojo, who were hanged by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Trial).
It is. Among Kishida Cabinet officials, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura visited the shrine in person the day before.