Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stepped down in September, visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 19, his second visit to the war-related shrine in a month.

A Chinese national living in Japan was arrested over his suspected involvement in spray-painting the word “Toilet” in English on a stone pillar near the entrance to war-related Yasukuni Shrine ...

Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalized. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.

Video Japanese politicians visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, evoking criticism from South Korea, China, and the United States due to the shrine's memorialization of several Japanese war criminals.

Japan's first lady has visited the Yasukuni shrine honoring the country's war dead, including convicted war criminals, in a move that risks outraging neighboring countries that suffered under ...

The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2015. The Tokyo District Court sentenced a South Korean man to four years in prison for detonating a homemade device at the shrine last year.

Japan's Dragon Films has decided to move its Tokyo offices to protect its staff after anonymous death threats against the company, its personnel and Li Ying, the Chinese-born director of a ...

Yasukuni, a Shinto shrine honoring Japan’s war dead, including several hundred individuals convicted of war crimes during World War II, is a perennial flashpoint in relations between Japan and ...

‘Yasukuni’ hangs in limbo. On the eve of China's release of two major feature films about the Nanjing Massacre, a third film -- a documentary about the legacy of that black mark on Sino ...

"Yasukuni" Movie Review -- How does a nation deal with events that its culture has been taught to despise? In Japan, you ignore them. More than 60 years after the end of World War II, many ...

Yasukuni is not about contrition or reflection, but about certainty. There, Japan did not lose the war. Imperial Japan, when Japanese were said to noble, selfless and brave, ...