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The visits by the Japanese ministers to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including 14 Class A criminals convicted by the Allies in trials that followed World War II, came a day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a much-anticipated speech marking the...

But his remarks were an unusual addition to the short and highly ritualized statement that he delivers each year at the memorial ceremony. It was scary. As a young man I didn’t think I would die.