Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, has often been at the center of international controversy because 14 Class-A war criminals from World War II are enshrined there.

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 ...

Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

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 ...

South Korea expressed “deep disappointment” following Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s ritual offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial war shrine viewed by Seoul and ...

Yasukuni Shrine was founded in 1869 as a place for the repose of the souls of Japan’s war dead. In recent decades its role as a focus for historical controversy has overshadowed this ...

TOKYO (Reuters): Nearly 100 Japanese lawmakers from several political parties visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead in Tokyo on Tuesday (Dec 7), prompting the South Korean ...

TOKYO—Eight decades ago, when Japan’s kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships and its soldiers were ...

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The plaintiffs demanded that Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine be excluded from their mourning process and that the names of Koreans be removed from its Symbolic Registry of Divinities.

2015 is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. How will Northeast Asia handle the milestone?

Abe's visit to Yasukuni shrine represents an attempt to link his economic successes with his other policy objectives.