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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Japanese officials avoid war shrine on anniversary AFP - 2 hours 3 minutes ago Send IM Story Print TOKYO (AFP) - – Japan on Sunday commemorated the 65th anniversary of its surrender in World War II without the ministerial visits to a controversial war shrine that regularly provoke outrage across Asia. For the first time in at least a quarter of a century, no government minister went to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, a place dedicated to 2.5 million Japanese killed in conflicts, including 14 of Japan's top WWII criminals. The anniversary is the first since Prime Minister Naoto Kan's centre-left Democratic Party ousted the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last year after its almost unbroken half century in power. Kan and Emperor Akihito, whose father Hirohito surrendered exactly 65 years ago, attended a memorial service in Tokyo and reaffirmed a vow that Japan would not engage in war again. "During the war, Japan inflicted significant damage and pain on many countries, especially the people of Asian countries," Kan said in the ceremony. "I deeply regret that and express my sincere condolences to the victims and their families." Emperor Akihito said: "Here I look back on history and ardently hope that the calamities of war will never be repeated." Ahead of the ceremony, Kan visited a national cemetery in Tokyo where he laid a bouquet in honour of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers who died overseas. But Kan and his cabinet have vowed not to visit the Yasukuni war shrine, something various LDP members have done regularly in the past, provoking outrage in China and on the Korean peninsula where memories of Japan's wartime atrocities refuse to fade. It is the first time since at least 1985 -- when government records began -- that the day has been marked without a ministerial visit to the shrine, local media reported. The move by the Kan administration is the latest in a series of overtures from Tokyo to its Asian neighbours. Japan last week issued a fresh apology for the country's past colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, ahead of the August 29 centenary of its annexation. In a statement, also timed to precede South Korea's celebration of its 1945 liberation on August 15, Kan expressed deep regret over what he referred to as the "suffering" inflicted during Japan's 1910 to 1945 colonial rule. However, the mood of rapprochement was not shared across the political spectrum, with dozens of parliamentarians -- including former prime minister Shinzo Abe and opposition leader Sadakazu Tanigaki -- at the shrine. Hirokuni Tanaka, 82, a former Japanese sailor who visits the shrine every year, expressed frustration at the absence of any cabinet ministers. "Are they refusing to be Japanese?" he asked as he waved a Rising Sun, the military flag of Japan considered a symbol of Japanese militarism on the Asian continent. "It's the Japanese government that is making such visits controversial," he said. Government ministers "should just come here. It's as simple as that." Yasuo Ishii, 50, who visited the shrine with his 20-year-old son Ryosuke, also criticised Kan and his cabinet. "They try to smooth things for foreign countries, but they should come here for Japan if they are real politicians," he said. Former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the controversial shrine every year during his 2001-2006 premiership, angering China and South Korea, which harbor deep bitterness over Japan's past imperialism. 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