An activist group staged a protest Friday at the Japanese Consulate General in Hong Kong over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Yasukuni Shrine the day before.
Sixteen members of the Hong Kong-based Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, a group asserting China's territorial rights over the Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, criticized the visit as disregarding the emotions of Japan's wartime victims.
"Japan has persistently refused to discharge its postwar obligation by offering a formal apology to China and all the other nations (that) have been victimized by the Japanese aggressor," committee member and legislator Albert Ho said.