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

It had been anticipated that Trump and the Polish president would be at the shrine for the unveiling of a monument to the anti-communist Solidarity movement. Trump is expected to be Pennsylvania ...

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

She also advocated visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals. Her position would infuriate China and South Korea, a country Japan has tried to ...

Some candidates in Japan's upcoming ruling party leadership election have suggested they would visit the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo if they win and become prime minister, stirring concerns it ...

A Chinese man recently went viral after posting a video of himself defacing the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a controversial symbol of Japan’s military legacy that honors the country’s war dead ...

She has aroused controversy with her promise to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan’s war dead including a number of convicted war criminals. Japanese leaders stopped going to the ...

They get riled when Japanese politicians express support for Taiwan or when they visit Yasukuni, a Tokyo shrine to Japan’s war dead, including war criminals. The Japanese-controlled Senkaku ...

TOKYO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - In the race to become Japan's next leader, young contender Shinjiro Koizumi has positioned himself as a change candidate, but his veteran rivals Shigeru Ishiba and Sanae ...

Ms. Takaichi has invoked some nationalist tropes that could spook Japan’s Asian neighbors, such as promising to visit Yasukuni Shrine, where Class A war criminals from World War II are enshrined.