Abe did not go to the shrine shortly after becoming PM again at the end of 2012, during its spring and autumn festivals, or on the Aug. 15 anniversary of the end of World War II. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga and his two deputies, Hiroshige Seko and Kazuhiro Sugita, have led a broad section of the LDP centered on the PM's Office who've advised caution on Yasukuni.