Poland recalls its ambassador to the occupied territories two days after Israel did the same over a Polish law restricting World War II-era property restitution claims.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga spoke of the damage inflicted on Japan, but did not offer an apology for his country's militarism. His ministers courted controversy by visiting a war shrine for the war dead.
China expressed firm opposition to some Japanese senior politicians over the Yasukuni shrine issue and has lodged solemn representations with Japan, urging the country to completely draw a line from militarism, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Chinese Embassy in Japan on Sunday, right after Suga sent a ritual offering and Suga cabinet s members visited the shrine on the day that marks the 76th anniversary of Japan s surrender in World War II.
President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of the remaining U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan is being covered by some in the news media as the "end" of “America’s longest war,” though it means the end of the conflict or even means peace in Afghanistan.