Hie-jinja Shrine has a history of more than 600 years. The Sanno Festival, one of the three biggest Japanese festivals, is held in June. Hie Shrine is a prestigious shrine which had received offerings ...

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My co-written article with Dr Yasuyuki Ishida on the late PM Shinzo Abe and India is now available on The Diplomat. It’s titled ‘Abe Shinzo and Japan’s “Discovery of India”’.

No sitting prime minister has visited the shrine since Shinzo Abe in December 2013. That visit drew criticism from China and South Korea and disappointment from the United States. In a time of ...

Akie Abe, widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, delivers a speech in Taipei on April 19, 2025. (Kyodo) TAIPEI (Kyodo) -- Akie Abe, widow of slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...

Ishiba's two predecessors also refrained from visiting the shrine during its festivals. When then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited in December 2013, it drew sharp rebukes from China and South Korea ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has no plans to visit Yasukuni Shrine during the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival next week, people close to him said Friday. Instead, Ishiba plans to make ...

Ishiba's two predecessors also refrained from visiting the shrine during its festivals. When then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited in December 2013, it drew sharp rebukes from China and South ...

Although the agreement did not cover automobile trade, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had received assurances from Trump that the U.S. would not impose "Section 232" national ...

TOKYO, April 21 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday Tokyo has no plan to terminate a trade deal struck with the U.S. in 2019, but will keep voicing "grave concern ...