Annual spring festival at the Yasukuni Shrine
April 21, 2018
Tokyo- Shinto priests walk to the main shrine to attend a purification ritual during the annual spring festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, 21 April 2018.
A day earlier, a group of Japanese lawmakers visited the shrine.
Some 2.5 million Japanese soldiers who died in the service are enshrined at Yasukuni, including convicted war criminals from World War II. EPA-Jiji Press
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