Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist ... In October, he sent an offering to coincide with the shrine’s autumn festival, prompting a statement of “deep regret” from ...

South Korea expressed deep regret Tuesday after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to a war shrine seen as symbolizing its militaristic past and its lawmakers paid their ...

The controversial Tokyo shrine’s wide stone path, normally reserved for quiet prayers and camera-clicking tourists, ...

A cross-party group of around 70 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday attended the spring festival at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has no plans to visit Yasukuni Shrine during the ... "masakaki" tree offering to the Shinto shrine as he did during its autumn festival in October.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine ... trees to the shrine. Ishiba made a masakaki offering during the shrine's autumn festival in October ...

Ishiba also made an offering during the shrine's autumn festival last year ... Minoru have also made ritual offerings to the shrine. Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan's war dead.

Ishiba, who took office in October, also refrained from visiting Yasukuni Shrine during last year's autumn festival, sending the masakaki ritual offering instead. India, Pakistan agree to cease ...

This April 21, 2020 file photo shows Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided not to visit the war-linked Yasukuni shrine, a site that has ...

Around 70 lawmakers from various political parties paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Kyodo News reported. Yasukuni shrine was constructed in commemoration of the 2.5 million people who ...

Yasukuni, however, has long been a source of diplomatic ... The cross-party group usually visits the shrine for the spring and autumn festivals as well as the anniversary of the end of World War II on ...