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

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has sent an offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead to coincide with its autumn festival, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday.

as he was the only one of the three leading candidates with no history of visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan’s wartime aggression that is a sensitive issue in China-Japan relations.

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 ...