{"id":258136,"date":"2026-04-23T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/04\/23\/why-did-japans-pm-takaichi-donate-to-yasukuni-shrine-again-exploring-the-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:02:45","slug":"why-did-japans-pm-takaichi-donate-to-yasukuni-shrine-again-exploring-the-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/politics\/2026\/04\/23\/why-did-japans-pm-takaichi-donate-to-yasukuni-shrine-again-exploring-the-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Japan&#8217;s PM Takaichi Donate to Yasukuni Shrine Again? 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The previous day she had refrained from visiting the shrine but donated a &#8220;masakaki&#8221; offering in the name of &#8220;Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.&#8221; South Korea and China publicly condemned the move, yet she returned the next day to provide extra funds for the offerings. #Japan #Takaichi #Yasukuni #offering #payment #donation Yonhap News TV \u2014 For inquiries and tips: KakaoTalk\/LINE jebo23; Choi Jin\u2011kyung (highjean@yna.co.kr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae donated offerings to Yasukuni Shrine, prompting criticism from South Korea and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/04\/CP-2023-0139\/thumb-98c47012-d9e2-4839-9b96-a90f1b5c213a.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Did Japan&#039;s PM Takaichi Donate to Yasukuni Shrine Again? 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