{
  "id": 930202,
  "title": "Japan’s Takaichi sends offering to Yasukuni on WWII anniversary, Koizumi visits shrine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/japans-takaichi-sends-offering-to-yasukuni-on-wwii-anniversary",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-15T01:17:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3364123/japans-takaichi-sends-offering-yasukuni-wwii-anniversary-koizumi-visits-shrine"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, while the country’s defence chief Shinjiro Koizumi visited the site as Japan marks the 81st anniversary of the end of the second world war. Sources have said Takaichi, a conservative, is likely to refrain from visiting the war-linked shrine on the war anniversary. The shrine…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}