Ninety-one lawmakers, including Jin Murai, head of the National Public Safety Commission, visited Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday in the wake of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's surprise visit there Sunday.
The lawmakers, members of a suprapartisan group in the Diet promoting visits to the Tokyo Shinto shrine, visited on the occasion of a spring peace festival, and 94 other Diet members sent representatives.
The 91 who visited in person included Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taku Yamasaki, his New Conservative Party counterpart, Toshihiro Nikai, and Kenji Kobayashi of the Democratic Party of Japan.