Established in 1869 in a leafy urban enclave, the shrine is dedicated to 2.5 million Japanese who died in wars beginning in the 19th century and including World War Two. Funded by the government ...

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug ... deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to lodge a protest. “We express our deep ...

Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japanese soldiers fought the war, last visited the shrine in 1975. Historians say he was ...

According to the shrine, there were about ... I prayed for world peace as ending the war in Ukraine and other conflicts is necessary for economic development." (Japanese original by Takashi ...

Japanese Canadians were shipped to interior B.C. aboard trains during the Second World War. Picture here, children looking out a train window on their way to internment camps. (National Archives ...

I was 19 when the war began. As Japanese forces moved closer towards Hong Kong, I worked in the city, loading hundreds of bags of rice onto ferries on Hong Kong Island every day. But when Japanese ...

Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe has generated much controversy at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014, by likening ...

The ambassador was asked to remember that the Yasukuni Shrine keeps the lists ... affected by Japanese aggression during World War II as its justification. On August 15, China protested over ...

China must take "excessive" counter-measures after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial war shrine visit, state-run media urged on Friday, reflecting the smouldering resentment among ...