韩国召见日驻韩大使抗议日议员参拜靖国神社

**SKorea Recalls Japan Ambassador over visits to War Shrine**

South Korea has sumMoned Japan's ambassador in Seoul to protest recent visits by Japanese lawmakers and officials to a controversial shrine seen by many as a symbol of Tokyo's colonial past.

More than 160 lawmakers paid their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine on Wednesday. Three government ministers made a similar visit to the Shinto site in Tokyo last week.

The shrine honors 2.5 million of Japan's war dead, including some convicted war criminals from World War Two. South Korea and China, which bore the brunt of Japan's pre-war aggression, regularly protest such visits.

The South's Deputy Foreign Minister said Thursday that Japan's ambassador was recalled in protest about the visits and subsequent comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.韩国召见日本驻首尔大使，抗议日本议员和官员最近参拜引起争议的靖国神社。靖国神社被很多人认为是东京殖民历史的象征。

星期三，160多名议员参拜了靖国神社。上星期，3名政府部长也参拜了位于东京的靖国神社。

靖国神社供奉着250万日本战争亡灵，包括一些第二次世界大战期间犯了战争罪而被判刑的人。在二战前，韩国和中国就首当其冲遭受日本的侵略，他们经常抗议日本官方参拜靖国神社。

韩国副外长星期四表示，他们召见了日本驻韩大使，抗议日本议员参拜靖国神社，以及日本首相安倍晋三随后发表的评论。