A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo to offer prayers during its three-day spring festival on April 22, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo ...

Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)--Some 70 lawmakers of both chambers of Japan's parliament on Tuesday visited together war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its spring festival. They are members ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by Japan's neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism, began a three-day spring ...

China has lodged solemn representations with Japan, the embassy said on Tuesday. The Yasukuni Shrine is a spiritual symbol and tool of Japanese militarism's war of aggression, enshrining 14 Class ...

This photo taken on April 21, 2025, at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its spring festival.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival on Monday. Ishiba has no plans to visit the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to mark the start of its spring festival on Monday. Ishiba gave the shrine a potted plant known as ...

Around 70 lawmakers from various political parties paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Kyodo News reported. Yasukuni shrine was constructed in commemoration of the 2.5 million people who ...

A cross-party group of around 70 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday attended the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, regarded as a symbol of the country's past militarism by its Asian neighbors.

China has lodged a protest after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and dozens of lawmakers visited it ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past brutal militarism, on the occasion of its spring festival.