Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in central Tokyo and is an important religious site for many Japanese people. The ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a ritual spring offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism, but didn’t visit himself to ...

China expressed strong opposition on Monday to a ritual offering made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a ...

File. Yasukuni shrine on 15 August 2023, 78th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II in 1945 (AFP via Getty Images) Mr Kishida and some cabinet members sent ritual offerings to the ...

A non-partisan group of Japanese lawmakers has visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo for its annual spring festival. The shrine honors Japan's war dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of ...

Japan's economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday visited Yasukuni Shrine, seen by some of Tokyo's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism, raising concerns about potential ...

TOKYO, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, despite strong opposition both at home and abroad, on Tuesday visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the ...

Judge Pal is celebrated in Japan. There is a monument to him in the Yasukuni Shrine. Judge Pal’s dissent and the failure of ...

And that place is called Yasukuni shrine, a grand Shinto temple located in the middle of Tokyo and not far from the emperor’s official digs. This year was slightly different however as the Japanese ...

Abandon the pretence walk/visit the Yasukuni Shrine through the front door. Why tip toe on cornflakes. Diplomatically, regionally it going to ruffle feathers. Maybe politically feathers need a ruffle ...

China Opposes Japan Prime Minister's Offering at Yasukuni Shrine BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed strong opposition on Monday to a ritual offering made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...