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 ...

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 ...

SADO, Niigata Prefecture--Two separate memorial services honoring those who worked in Sado Island’s gold mines during World War II were held here after the South Korean government’s last ...

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 ...

Netizens also found pictures of him posing in 2018 at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Class-A Japanese war criminals who committed atrocities during World War II. The association said Yasukuni is a ...

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