Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates 14 Class-A war criminals along with the nation’s war dead, is viewed by South Korea as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism.

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

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 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba didn't visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering of "masakaki" evergreen twigs.

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 ...

South Korea expressed “deep disappointment” following Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s ritual offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial war shrine viewed by Seoul and ...

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?

The plaintiffs demanded that Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine be excluded from their mourning process and that the names of Koreans be removed from its Symbolic Registry of Divinities.

Much of the West is eulogizing the former Japanese prime minister. In China and South Korea, reactions are far less positive. Viewing Japanese policy through the past highlights the dominance ...