In China, which Japan invaded in 1931 and then occupied through the end of World War II, the Defense Ministry said it “strongly opposed” the latest visit to the shrine.

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion ... visitors encourage travelers to write down a personal prayer or wish and tie it to the prayer wall to commemorate your experience ...

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 ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided not to visit the war-linked Yasukuni shrine, a site that has long been a source of diplomatic friction with Japan's neighbors ...