Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine has picked a former military commander ... from countries such as South Korea, which was under Tokyo’s colonial rule for 35 years, and China, which Japan invaded.
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.
who sought damages from the Japanese government over the enshrinement of their loved ones at Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine in Tokyo honors the war-dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of ...
A Tokyo court has sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at Yasukuni Shrine. Jiang Zhuojun, 29, was on trial at the ...
The incident at the Yasukuni shrine - which honours the country's war dead, including some convicted of war crimes - sparked outrage in Japan. One Tokyo businessman even offered a cash reward in ...