China on Japan shrine offerings and Fukushima water

China called Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's donation of religious offerings to the Yasukuni Shrine "erroneous".

Suga's offering of leaves at Yasukuni Shrine was his second since taking office.

Victims of Japanese military aggression in the 20th century, especially the Koreas and China, see the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militarism because it honors convicted World War II criminals among about 2.5 million war dead.

At a regular press conference on Wednesday, Wang also urged Japan to correct its "unilateral wrong decision" to release treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, saying the rest of the world should not "pay for its wrongdoing".

He said Japan's neigboring countries should be closely consulted and the UN, WHO and IAEA should be involved in the discussion.

Earlier in the month, Japan's government announced it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years - a move that's fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan's neighbors.

The decision, long speculated at but delayed for years because of safety worries and protests, came during a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option.

The accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant's storage capacity will be full late next year.