Japan's shrine culture holds secrets that even frequent visitors rarely discover. Behind the serene torii gates and ...

Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing Sunday ...

A blue sheet covers a stone pillar on which graffiti was found at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war ...

Hofu Tenmangu, founded in the year 904, is the oldest of three large shrines in Japan dedicated to the scholar Sugawara no ...

TOKYO — An explosion Monday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. The Yasukuni shrine, which ...

TOKYO – In the steamy heat of mid-August, the cherry-tree shaded grounds of Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of Tokyo seem an unlikely hotbed of provocation. But visits by senior Japanese government ...

The Japanese war shrine at the center of a long-running dispute between Tokyo and Beijing has decided to “soften” references to China in a war museum on its premises, a Japanese newspaper reported on ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Seventy-five years after Japan's defeat in World War Two, Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead is a potent symbol of the controversy that persists over the conflict's legacy in East ...

Dozens of worshipers took a deep breath and a brave plunge into icy waters at a Tokyo shrine Sunday, keeping afloat a New ...

TOKYO — A group of about 100 Japanese lawmakers Tuesday prayed at a controversial Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, 80 years after Japan’s attack ...

TOKYO — Every Aug. 15, the normally serene Yasukuni shrine in the center of Tokyo becomes the setting for a stakeout. The watchers are Japan’s media. And they’re watching for politicians, keeping ...