The Kundanshita demonstration will get underway along Yasukuni Dori on Aug 15, just after 2:30 p.m. Access via Jimbocho station (exit A1 or A2) or Kudanshita station (exit 5 or 6). The Ichigaya ...

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15 in a move that provoked a backlash from South Korea.

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.

If Abe can keep most of his Cabinet away from Yasukuni on Friday, and also keep them from making inflammatory nationalist speeches, there may be room to negotiate a meeting.

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.

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, visited the Yasukuni shrine (above) on Boxing Day, where (among many others) 14 class A war criminals are enshrined.

TOKYO -- A Japanese movie theatre operator has decided not to show a documentary on Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, where convicted war criminals are among the 2. Cinema cancels “Yasukuni” screening ...