Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The petition, which was rejected with one dissenting opinion, followed ...

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15 in a move that provoked a backlash from South Korea. South Korea and China view the shrine as a symbol of ...

17 dismissed a bereaved family's lawsuit demanding compensation in connection with a South Korean national's enshrinement at Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead. The South Korean man ...

Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, is located in that district. It has often been at the center of an ongoing international controversy because of the 14 Class-A war criminals from ...

TASS/. Ukrainian ambassador Sergey Korsunsky "affronted" the people of China and other Asian countries by visiting the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine, "a symbol of Japan's militaristic and colonial past ...