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BEIJING — China protested an offering by Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso to a war shrine seen as a symbol of his country’s militarist past, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. China expressed its “concern and dissatisfaction” to Japan through diplomatic channels, ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said. Aso sent a $500 evergreen tree to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for a Shinto holiday, though he did not visit.
