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 ...

This week, the police also launched an investigation after finding a symbol meaning "death" in two places on a stone wall of the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo. In June and August, the pillars of the ...

Abe visited Japan's highly controversial Yasukuni shrine (part of which is seen above) that "venerates the souls" of the country's 2.5 million war dead, including those categorized as Class A war ...

South Korea expressed “deep disappointment” following Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s ritual offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial war shrine viewed by Seoul and ...

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?

TOKYO (Reuters): Nearly 100 Japanese lawmakers from several political parties visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead in Tokyo on Tuesday (Dec 7), prompting the South Korean ...

The star finds himself entangled in another co-star controversy as Darren Wang faces attempted murder allegations ...

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.

Much of the West is eulogizing the former Japanese prime minister. In China and South Korea, reactions are far less positive. Viewing Japanese policy through the past highlights the dominance ...