Graffiti was discovered on a stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 19 ... In May, the same pillar was graffitied with the word "Toilet" in English in red spray paint.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing ...

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 ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country's war dead ...

Mr Abe posted a picture of himself at the Yasukuni Shrine, telling his followers he had gone there to inform the spirits of his resignation. He largely stayed away from the shrine, which honours ...

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 ...

Echoing Kan’s dovish approach, the entire Cabinet stayed away from the Yasukuni shrine (a Shinto house of worship at which about 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, including 14 Class A war ...

South Korea’s president shocks public after ‘outrageous’ Liberation Day speech President Yoon Suk-yeol shocked South Koreans by omitting mention of Japan’s wartime atrocities from his ...

Yet, Ukraine's ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky paid a pilgrimage to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a symbol of Japan's militaristic and colonial past. The Ukrainian embassy in ...

Today dozens of Japanese politicians are expected to make a trip to Yasukuni Shrine, a highly controversial monument to Japan’s war dead and for China and Korea little more than a reminder of ...

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not visit the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, seen by its neighbors as a symbol of the country's past ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, seen by its neighbors as a symbol of the country's past militarism, during the fall festival next week, a source ...