Graffiti was discovered on a stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 19, marking the second such act of vandalism at the controversial war memorial this year. Shrine staff called police in ...

Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine has picked a former military commander as its chief priest in a move that could stir controversy over a site that other Asian nations see as a symbol of Japan’s wartime ...

Japanese media reported that Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine in celebration of the autumn festival, the first such offering since he became the prime minister on Oct. 1.

Yasukuni Shrine was founded in 1869 as a place for the repose of the souls of Japan’s war dead. In recent decades its role as a focus for historical controversy has overshadowed this ...

2015 is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. How will Northeast Asia handle the milestone?

而且宗教與政治掛勾，故被視為日本國家神道的象徵。(Yasukuni Shrine) (维基百科：靖国神社 (Yasukuni Shrine)) ...

The plaintiffs demanded that Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine be excluded from their mourning process and that the names of Koreans be removed from its Symbolic Registry of Divinities.

Abe's visit to Yasukuni shrine represents an attempt to link his economic successes with his other policy objectives.