Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said.The minister of health,

Ishiba, who took office on Oct. 1, is believed to have followed the practice of his predecessor, Fumio Kishida, who, during his tenure, made masakaki offerings for the shrine's spring and fall festivals and tamagushi ritual offerings as chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea which views the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba didn't visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering of

The country’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea which views the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said. No Japanese premier has visited the Yasukuni shrine since 2013 and Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida would also regularly send offerings for its biannual spring and autumn festivals.