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Japan PM Koizumi visits war shrine

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-15 09:17

Left-wing protesters (in the bus) scuffle with right-wing activists as police officers try to separate the two groups in front of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo August 15, 2006, on the 61st anniversary of Japan's World War Two surrender. Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of his country's World War Two surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korean not to go. [Reuters]