A Japanese cabinet minister paid his respects at a controversial shrine for the nation's war dead Wednesday, a move that will likely strain relations with China and South Korea, Reuters reported.

(Philip FONG/AFP/AFP) The new head of Japan's ruling party, Sanae Takaichi, sent an offering but avoided visiting a controversial war shrine on Friday, as the prospects of her becoming prime minister ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, seen by Asian neighbours as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. The Tokyo shrine honours ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defence minister visited a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead on Thursday, just after accompanying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a historic visit to Pearl Harbor, where ...