Position: Professor Degree: Ph.D. in History, Murdoch University, Australia Background: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Kagoshima University (1987-1993) Associate ...

(Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) TOKYO -- The Supreme Court on Jan. 17 dismissed a bereaved family's lawsuit demanding compensation in connection with a South Korean national's enshrinement at Yasukuni ...

Japan's Supreme Court delivered the final decision earlier in the day on a request filed in 2013 by 27 family members seeking to eliminate their relatives' names from Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine.

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 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 ...

Current and former Cabinet members visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15 as Japan marked the 77th anniversary of its defeat in World War II. Visits to Yasukuni by Cabinet members have ...

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. Abe’s visit came a day after ...