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The Kundanshita demonstration will get underway along Yasukuni Dori on Aug 15, just after 2:30 p.m. Access via Jimbocho station (exit A1 or A2) or Kudanshita station (exit 5 or 6). The Ichigaya ...
Video Japanese politicians visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, evoking criticism from South Korea, China, and the United States due to the shrine's memorialization of several Japanese war criminals.
"Yasukuni" Movie Review -- How does a nation deal with events that its culture has been taught to despise? In Japan, you ignore them. More than 60 years after the end of World War II, many ...
Yasukuni is not about contrition or reflection, but about certainty. There, Japan did not lose the war. Imperial Japan, when Japanese were said to noble, selfless and brave, is longed for as a ...
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.
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, visited the Yasukuni shrine (above) on Boxing Day, where (among many others) 14 class A war criminals are enshrined.
Japan's Dragon Films has decided to move its Tokyo offices to protect its staff after anonymous death threats against the company, its personnel and Li Ying, the Chinese-born director of a ...
On December 26, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an official visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, drawing harsh criticism from Japan’s neighbors and a public rebuke from the U.S. Embassy in ...
A visit to Yasukuni is less belligerent than many alternatives, like lobbing missiles or sinking boats. All in all we, the rest of the world, are the ones making a visit to Yasukuni about war crimes.