The visit Thursday, and one by another Cabinet minister the day before, drew rebukes from neighboring South Korea and China. Earlier this week, Inada accompanied Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe during his visit to Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, where he offered condolences to those who died in the Japanese attack there in 1941.
Japan’s Asian neighbors harbor bitter memories of the country’s atrocities before and during World War II, when it colonized or invaded much of the region.
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