A Pokémon card game event at a shrine honouring Japan's war dead has been cancelled following a backlash in China.
The Pokémon Company apologised for advertising the event, organised by a certified third party, through its official website, and said it "should not have been held in the first place".
The event was due to be held on Saturday at the Yasukuni Shrine, near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, which commemorates those who died in several wars including convicted war criminals.
The blunder comes at a moment of worsening relations between China and Japan over the stance of the latter's new prime minister on Taiwan.
The Yasukuni Shrine honours Japanese soldiers who died in a number of wars, including both Sino-Japanese wars and the Pacific theatre of World War Two.
