China angry over Japan lawmakers' shrine visits

October 18, 2014 00:45

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering to a controversial war shrine today as 100 lawmakers paid their respects there, in a move Beijing said ratcheted up regional tensions.

A cross-party group of parliamentarians said 110 members paid homage at Yasukuni Shrine in downtown Tokyo, a spot condemned by China and Korea as a symbol of Japan's militarist past.

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