One simple mistake at Japanese shrines could offend locals and disrespect sacred traditions. Here's what you need to know about this rule before your trip.

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) ...

Ishiba made a masakaki offering during the shrine's autumn festival in October last year. During the event, visits to the shrine by his Cabinet ministers were not confirmed.

In August, Chinese characters and some letters from the Latin alphabet were also written on the shrine with a black felt-tip pen, police said. Japan welcomed a record 17.78 million foreign ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of ...

Her promise to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, an unapologetic monument to Japanese militarism over centuries, threatened to upset the recently forged rapprochement with South Korea.

The Yasukuni shrine was funded by the government until 1945. The monument was central to the state religion, Shintoism, which helped the Japanese government motivate countrymen to fight in the wars.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Japan has been criticised on social media in China for visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in what some commenters called an insult to the Chinese people.

The Yasukuni Shrine, located in Tokyo, is one of Japan's most contentious and politically charged sites. It’s a place that commemorates Japan’s war dead, including several war criminals from World War ...