{"id":81539,"date":"2014-04-23T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=81539"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:11:47","slug":"justin-bieber-apologizes-for-japan-war-shrine-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=81539","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber Apologizes for Japan War Shrine Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-shrine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-81535\" alt=\"bieber- shrine\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-shrine.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-shrine.jpg 408w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-shrine-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Bieber apologized Wednesday to those he offended by visiting Japan&#8217;s Yasukuni war shrine this week, saying he was misled to see it as only a place of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The Shinto shrine in Tokyo honors 2.5 million war dead, including 14 convicted war criminals. China and South Korea in particular see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japan&#8217;s past militarism and see visits to it as a lack of understanding or remorse over wartime history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-Believe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81536\" alt=\"bieber-Believe\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bieber-Believe.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two photos posted late Tuesday and subsequently removed from Instagram showed Bieber praying outdoors at the shrine and standing beside a Shinto priest. The images outraged China as well as many commenters on Instagram and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In a new Instagram post Wednesday evening, Bieber said he asked his driver to stop when he saw the shrine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Justin Bieber apologized Wednesday to those he offended by visiting Japan&#8217;s Yasukuni war shrine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1290],"class_list":["post-81539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-justin-bieber","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}