Conservatives assert that Yasukuni, which was established in 1869 as Japan emerged from more than 250 years of isolation, is meant to commemorate all the nation’s war dead and is not a shrine ...

The Supreme Court failed to address the core constitutional issue of the separation of church and state in its ruling on an enshrinement case involving the war-related Yasukuni Shrine. South ...

An erroneous report by Japan's Kyodo News claiming that House of Councillors lawmaker Akiko Ikuina visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo was "extremely regrettable," the top government ...

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.