Visitors to Yasukuni shrine wait for the gate to open at 5:54 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2024, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi/Yohei Koide) ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

A: Yasukuni shrine became a religious corporation after WWII. It maintains that "once a spirit is enshrined, it cannot be removed," and does not allow the separation of Class-A war criminals.

Toshihiro Kitamura, press secretary at the Foreign Ministry, said on Nov. 24 that “we are aware that she did not visit Yasukuni Shrine after becoming an Upper House member in July 2022.” ...

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