Keith Lowe’s “Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell us About our History and Ourselves” examines how different countries’ statues and museums about the war resonate today.

Peaceable End for Korean Monument of War. March 19, ... In 1978, a Korean scholar located it in Tokyo, tucked away ignominiously next to a pigeon coop at the Yasukuni Shrine, ...

Toshiaki Nambu, the head of Yasukuni Shrine, told the media that his board never contested the return of the monument. “The monument is not ours. We are only keeping it temporarily and planning ...

Japan is planning to build a new monument to commemorate its war dead, a newspaper reported Saturday, in a move seen as an attempt to find an alternative to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for ...

Police obtained an arrest warrant on Nov. 21 for a Chinese teenager in connection with vandalization committed at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo this summer.

TOKYO -- A Japanese movie theatre operator has decided not to show a documentary on Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, where convicted war criminals are among the 2. Cinema cancels “Yasukuni” screening ...

Yasukuni Shrine: Kamikaze pilot statue and Zero fighter plane among exhibits From an Indian judge who declared Japan not guilty of war crimes, to a train from the Thai-Burma railway: the monuments ...

Japan’s defense minister visited a shrine seen by some of Tokyo’s neighbors as glorifying the nation’s militaristic past, after returning from a ceremony this week commemorating the 1941 ...

TOKYO — Controversy continues over “Yasukuni,” helmer Li Ying’s documentary about the shrine to Japan’s war dead. Distrib Argo Pictures is consulting lawyers after shrine officials ...

Yasukuni Shrine has its beginnings in a proposal by Takasugi Shinsaku ... Takasugi Shinsaku died of tuberculosis rather than in war, but is nonetheless enshrined in this monument to the war dead.

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.