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.

NBC cited Michael Cucek, a Japanese politics expert at Temple University ... in the leadership election who had not visited Yasukuni Shrine, the resting place of Class A-Japanese war criminals ...

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

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing ...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol ...

South Korea voiced "deep regret" Thursday after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to a war shrine in ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, seen by its neighbors as a symbol of the country's past militarism, during the fall festival next week, a source ...

It was recently learned that Maritime Self-Defense Force members, including a senior officer, visited Yasukuni Shrine as a group. The finding came on the heels of an earlier revelation of a group ...

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will not visit the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, seen by its neighbors as a symbol of the country's past ...

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.

Cases of temple or shrine properties being extensively repurposed have triggered public outrage. In Osaka, a temple sold in 2020 was later razed and dozens of graves were relocated to make way for ...