FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Hata and other lawmakers are led by a Shinto priest after offering prayers to war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Yuichiro Hata (C) and other lawmakers are led by a Shinto priest after offering prayers to war dead at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo August 15, 2012, on the 67th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo