TOKYO - Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi and Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Friday as Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, the first Cabinet members confirmed to have done so since Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba took office in October.
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