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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a ritual “masakaki” tree offering at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Sunday, when the war-related Shinto shrine’s three-day spring festival began.
During the festival, Kishida is unlikely to visit the shrine.
Among his Cabinet ministers, economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo visited the shrine on Sunday.
Since taking office in October 2021, Kishida has made masakaki offerings for the shrine’s spring and autumn festivals and “tamagushi” ritual offerings at the shrine on the Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
