Two Japanese Cabinet Ministers visited a controversial war shrine on Wednesday, after a mass visit by lawmakers angered China and South Korea which see it as a painful reminder of Tokyo's aggressive past. The Ministers — internal affairs chief Sanae Takaichi and Katsunobu Kato, in charge of womens' empowerment — are close to conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who did not visit the Yasukuni shrine during this year's four-day autumn festival. Abe, often criticised for what some see as revisionist views on Japan's wartime record, sent a ritual offering to the shrine instead.