Japan shrine visits anger China on World War II anniversary

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Japan has commemorated the end of World War II at a ceremony attended by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko .

But tributes paid at a controversial shrine for the war dead have reopened old wounds with China.

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe has become ensnared in the row as he trod a fine line between trying to avoid offending the Chinese and his own conservative supporters.
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