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.

Conservatives assert that Yasukuni, which was established in 1869 as Japan emerged from more than 250 years of isolation, is meant to commemorate all the nation’s war dead and is not a shrine ...

Kyodo News corrected an article that had erroneously said Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice foreign minister, visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in 2022, a report that led in part to a ...

In June and August, the pillars of the Yasukuni shrine gate were covered with the ... Since then, it has been one of the constant attractions for tourists arriving in Tokyo. Visitors can ...

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 ...

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 ...