Commemorating the 81st anniversary of Japan’s unconditional WWII surrender in August 1946, Japan’s political leaders honoured a monument to known war-criminals. The infamous Yasukuni shrine commemorates thousands of war-criminals who served in the brutal Imperial Japanese Army. Leaders included the Prime Minister, defence minister and various cabinet members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Among those to visit the temple was the Japanese defence minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, in charge of Japan’s armed forces. Three other cabinet members visited the Shinto shrine. Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi has previously attended the war-crimes shrine. This year, however, Western media said she skipped, “did not…