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After being ridiculed for visting a shrine honoring war criminals in Tokyo, Justin Bieber took to his Instagram to issue an apology.




Early this week, the Bieber stopped by Yasukini Shrine, a place that honors Japan's fallen warriors and imperial army military leaders that were guilty of a large amount of atrocities across Asia and the Pacific during World War II.




"Thank you for your blessings," tweeted Bieber with an image of the shrine.




Before the tweet was removed, according to "Oh No They Didn't," it received over 666,000 likes and thousands of retweets.




The deletion of the tweet might have been triggered by and uproar from Bieber's Chinese fans who deemed the shrine image as disrespectful to the dead.




Responding to the controversy, Bieber posted an explanation and apology on Instagram that was accompanied by an image of the TIME article focusing on the incident.




"While in Japan I asked my driver to pull over for which I saw a beautiful shrine," Bieber wrote Wednesday on Instagram. "I was mislead to think the shrines were only a place of prayer. To anyone I have offended I am extremely sorry. I love you China and I love you Japan."




Bieber is the same guy who visited the Anne Frank House museum about a year ago and wrote in the guestbook, "hopefully she would have been a Belieber."