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 ...
Graffiti was discovered on a stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 19, marking the second such act of vandalism at the controversial war memorial this year. Shrine staff called police in ...
In June and August, the pillars of the Yasukuni shrine gate were covered with the ... Since then, it has been one of the constant attractions for tourists arriving in Tokyo. Visitors can ...
17 dismissed a bereaved family's lawsuit demanding compensation in connection with a South Korean national's enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead. The South Korean man ...
TASS/. Ukrainian ambassador Sergey Korsunsky "affronted" the people of China and other Asian countries by visiting the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine, "a symbol of Japan's militaristic and colonial past ...
The incident at the Yasukuni shrine - which honours the country's war dead, including some convicted of war crimes - sparked outrage in Japan. One Tokyo businessman even offered a cash reward in ...
A Tokyo court has sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at Yasukuni Shrine. Jiang Zhuojun, 29, was on trial at the ...