Visitors to Yasukuni shrine wait for the gate to open at 5:54 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2024, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi/Yohei Koide) Amid ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

"Still, we submitted a third request on October 4, 2023. On October 18, we got a reply stating that Yasukuni had already 'expressed its stance' and would not offer another meeting," he said.

Yasukuni Jinjya high priests from Japan blessed the new shrine. The shrine at Adlup is the first of its kind in this area of the Pacific, according to Camacho. READ MORE: ...

Yasukuni Shrine’s annual Mitama Matsuri is one of Tokyo’s largest Obon festivals. First held in 1947, the festival is best known for its 30,000 lanterns: 10,000 ...

In response to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's remarks affirming that Japan has taken on a path of peace after the war, and this will not change in the future, Chinese Foreign Ministry ...

S. Korea holds its own Sado mines memorial, snubs Japan’s THE ASAHI SHIMBUN November 25, 2024 at 16:49 JST ...

We meet Katsura Fukuryu, a Canadian rakugo comedian based in Osaka who's trying to spread the popularity of his art form worldwide, and Chinese Zhang Ye who works for a literary agency in Tokyo.

Seventy years ago, some beautiful semi-tropical islands of Okinawa were turned into a battle zone of madness.

People around the world marked the 79th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War as well as Chinese people's victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) on ...

File photo of actor Zhang Zhehan. [Photo/IC] The China Association of Performing Arts has called for a boycott of Chinese actor Zhang Zhehan after photos of him taken at Tokyo's notorious Yasukuni ...