China has expressed anger after two Japanese ministers' visited the "notorious war-linked" Yasukuni Shrine.

On Monday, Beijing expressed opposition over the visit of two Japanese ministers to the Yasukuni Shrine saying that the visit once again shows the Japanese government's wrong attitude to history.

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China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang, during a routine press briefing, said: "That some Japanese cabinet members paid tribute to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Class-A convicted war criminals and aims to beautify aggression wars, once again proved the Japanese government's wrong attitude to the history-related issue."

Lu asked the Japanese government to "squarely face and deeply reflect upon the history of aggression, deal with relative issues in a responsible and appropriate way," according to Xinhua.

Two members of Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Monday visited Japan's national war shrine on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the country's surrender in the World War II.  The Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan's war heroes, some of whom have been convicted of war crimes after World War II.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have avoided a visit to the controversial shrine to keep China and South Korea happy. Both countries have repeatedly denounced visits of Japanese leaders to the Shrine in past.

China has been engaged in a bitter territorial dispute with Japan over some uninhabited Islands in the East China Sea including Senkaku Islands.

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