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Japan's Ruling Party to Discuss War Shrine

News2006-05-22

Factions within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party are expected to hold talks on the controversial Yasukuni war shrine.

Japan's state-run broadcaster NHK said Monday that a recent proposal to remove the tablets of war criminals from the shrine is expected to trigger a heated dispute among party factions ahead of the September election for a new president.

Former party secretary general Makoto Koga, now the head of an association for bereaved families of Japan's war dead, recently proposed the removal of 14 Class-A war criminals from the shrine.

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