The holder of the scales is blindfolded. Everyone is equal before the law....not everyone, except Chinese. Yasukuni is a vestige of the State Shinto that Japanese were coerced into belonging before ...

Defense Ministry officials are investigating whether members of the Self-Defense Forces violated regulations concerning religious facilities by visiting war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, is located in that district. It has often been at the center of an ongoing international controversy because of the 14 Class-A war criminals from ...

Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by South Korean relatives of the war-dead, who sought damages from the Japanese government over the enshrinement of their loved ones at Yasukuni ...

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 ...