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 ...

Behind the main sanctuary at Yasukuni Shrine, where more than 2.46 million people who lost their lives in different battles or theaters of war and are enshrined as divinities, is a building called ...

Yasukuni in central Tokyo is dedicated to 2.5 million war dead, mostly Japanese, who have perished in conflicts since the late 19th century.

Japan’s new PM Shigeru Ishiba sends offering to Yasukuni war shrine The Yasukuni shrine is seen as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism by China and South Korea Reading Time:2 minutes ...

October 9, 2024 TOKYO – About a kilometer north of the Imperial Palace lies a district called Jimbocho, home to what is said to be one of the world’s largest concentrations of used bookstores. More ...

16:44 JST, October 8, 2024 About a kilometer north of the Imperial Palace lies a district called Jimbocho, home to what is said to be one of the world’s largest concentrations of used bookstores. More ...

Yet, Ukraine's ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky paid a pilgrimage to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a symbol of Japan's militaristic and colonial past.

The Yasukuni Shrine, located in Tokyo, is one of Japan's most contentious and politically charged sites. It’s a place that commemorates Japan’s war dead, including several war criminals from World War ...

Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalised again overnight on Monday. “It is deplorable that an act seeking to ...