Abe Avoids Yasukuni Shrine as Japan Marks World War II's End

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/2aZP6WA
via IFTTT Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honors convicted war criminals among the nation's war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighboring countries on the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II.