Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday he sees problems in the current method of honoring the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine and suggested that having a single religious institution in charge of the system needs changing.
Aso also said in a presentation at the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo that he will run in September’s Liberal Democratic Party presidential election if he can collect the required 20 endorsements of party members.
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