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 sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by Jap ...

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 ...

Yasukuni honors Japan's wartime leaders, convicted as war criminals by a post-World War II international tribunal, along with millions of war dead. Ishiba and his cabinet ministers did not visit the ...

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 ...

During the autumn festival last year ... Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. Yasukuni Shrine honors some 2.46 million Japanese war dead, many of whom are linked to the Pacific War that began ...

Ishiba did not visit the shrine in person, following the same approach he took during last October’s autumn festival ... Japanese prime minister visited Yasukuni Shrine in person was in 2013 ...

Previously an inter-party group of 72 members of the Japanese parliament visited the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japanese ... three times a year - during the autumn and spring festivals, and ...