Chief Cupboard Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed disappointment over an misguided report by Kyodo Information that mentioned Akiko Ikuina, parliamentary vice overseas minister, had visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine.
The report “prompted confusion and is extraordinarily regrettable,” the highest authorities spokesperson mentioned at a information convention on Tuesday.
Hayashi made the remark after the Japanese information company mentioned the day before today it mistakenly reported that Ikuina, additionally a member of the Home of Councilors, visited the Shinto shrine on Aug. 15, 2022, which marked the 77th anniversary of the tip of World Struggle Il.
The information protection in query is believed to have prompted the South Korean delegation to skip a memorial service for all gold miners together with Koreans on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday.
The shrine honors Class-A struggle criminals together with the struggle lifeless and is seen as an emblem of Japan’s previous militarism by its neighboring international locations.
In line with Kyodo, it reviewed the information gathering course of that led to the misguided story after Ikuina on Sunday denied ever going to the shrine after changing into an Higher Home lawmaker.
Then it discovered that the story was written on unconfirmed info that she entered the shrine.
Kyodo concluded that an individual who had been considered Ikuina was not really her, as a number of her colleagues within the ruling Liberal Democratic Celebration who have been really on the shrine mentioned they didn’t see Ikuina on the time.
