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 ...

A verdict by Japan’s top court in a case involving a group of South Koreans who sought to have their relatives’ names removed from the highly controversial Yasukuni shrine has reopened wounds ...

(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 ...

It was recently learned that Maritime Self-Defense Force members, including a senior officer, visited Yasukuni Shrine as a group. The finding came on the heels of an earlier revelation of a group ...

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 ...