Two Japanese Cabinet ministers have visited a controversial Shinto shrine that honors the country's war dead, prompting an angry reaction from South Korea and China.
Japanese Cabinet Ministers Visit Yasukuni War Shrine
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People bow deeply at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, August 15, 2013.
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People bow at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, August 15, 2013.
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Ryan Randall plays the bagpipes outside a polling station in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland votes whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Members of the nationalist movement "Ganbare Nippon" participate in a march with Japanese national flags while paying tribute to the war dead near Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, August 15, 2013.