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[HOT LINKS] Justin Bieber steps into controversy with Yasukuni Shrine tweet

April 23, 2014
Photo from Justin Bieber's Instagram.

Photo from Justin Bieber’s Instagram.

[The Washington Post] Justin Bieber has a habit of getting into trouble, but nothing may have quite prepared the Canadian pop star for the scale of the geopolitical situation he just got himself into in Japan.

The problem arose when the 20-year-old posted two photos to his Instagram page that appeared to show his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Both pictures have now been deleted, but not before they spread around the world. For example, the image above was posted to the Beijing-based That’s Magazine. The reaction has been largely negative. “Say sorry to Chinese,” one user writes in the screen grab above, while others swore at the pop star.

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