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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Shigeru Ishiba’s unexpected ascendance shakes up the Tokyo political scene — and relationship with Washington.

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 ...

They were donated by his daughter in April to the Yasukuni Shrine Archives in Tokyo ... us to the person looking after the stone monument at the site where the 36th infantry regiment's flag ...

On November 23, an explosion occurred in a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Police found evidence that a bomb had been planted at the site, and opened an investigation into the ...

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 ...

The memorial is meant to honor those who fought in the solidarity movement for Polish independence against the Soviet-backed communist movement following WWII.