Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Police obtained an arrest warrant on Nov. 21 for a Chinese teenager in connection with vandalization committed at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo this summer. The boy, who is suspected of property damage ...

Because that is what the Yasukuni supporters stand for. It’s too soft. The man urinated on a national shrine. Regardless of its controversy, it’s the national shrine/ monument. 8 years is more like it ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

Abe visited Japan's highly controversial Yasukuni shrine (part of which is seen above) that "venerates the souls" of the country's 2.5 million war dead, including those categorized as Class A war ...

A group of 168 Japanese lawmakers paid homage at the Yasukuni Shrine, Tuesday, ignoring Seoul’s decision in protest to cancel ...

Japanese media reported that Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine in celebration of the autumn festival, the first such offering since he became the prime minister on Oct. 1.

Yasukuni Shrine was founded in 1869 as a place for the repose of the souls of Japan’s war dead. In recent decades its role as a focus for historical controversy has overshadowed this ...

The Supreme Court is pictured in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) TOKYO -- The Supreme Court on Jan. 17 dismissed a bereaved family's lawsuit demanding compensation in connection ...

2015 is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. How will Northeast Asia handle the milestone?

A Tokyo court has sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at Yasukuni Shrine. Jiang Zhuojun, 29, was on trial at the ...