超党派議員の会が靖国参拝　例大祭、高市氏も

　超党派の「みんなで靖国神社に参拝する国会議員の会」は２２日、東京・九段北の靖国神社を春季例大祭に合わせて集団で参拝した。自民党、立憲民主党、日本維新の会など与野党の衆参両院議員約７０人が参加した。
　副会長の逢沢一郎衆院議員（自民）は参拝後に記者会見し、「多くのご英霊が礎となって、今日の安定、繁栄した平和な日本が築かれている。その歴史を決して忘れることがないよう思いを込めて参拝した」と述べた。
　これと別に、自民の高市早苗前経済安全保障担当相、故安倍晋三元首相の妻昭恵さんもそれぞれ参拝した。高市氏は記者団に「国策に殉じた方々のみ霊に深く感謝の誠をささげた」と語った。（2025/04/22-12:47）

Some 70 lawmakers of both chambers of Japan's parliament on Tuesday visited together war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its spring festival.
   They are members of a suprapartisan group promoting visits to the Shinto shrine in the Kudankita district in the Japanese capital's Chiyoda Ward.
   Yasukuni Shrine is regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by neighboring countries including China and South Korea as it enshrines Class-A war criminals along with the war dead.
   Among the visitors were members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), also an opposition party.
   "The foundation of today's stable, thriving and peaceful Japan was laid by the spirits of many war dead," LDP lawmaker Ichiro Aisawa, who serves as deputy head of the suprapartisan group, told a press conference after the visit. "We visited the shrine with the hope that such history will never be forgotten."