Diplomacy is about striking a balance of interests with a foreign country. The opposition Democratic Party has denounced the government for its humiliating diplomacy with Japan. Our citizens even ...

Japan will go ahead with a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

citing her past visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine is highly sensitive in South Korea due to the enshrinement of Japan’s war criminals along with 2.5 million war dead. Ikuina told ...

Japan will hold a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

A Thai court on Thursday cleared a woman of involvement in a 2015 bomb attack on a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people, most of them tourists. Wanna Suansan was accused of complicity ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman threw his support behind a Park Hills Catholic church that is embroiled in a legal battle over the proposed construction of a shrine within its property.

In his first season in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tulane Green Wave's junior defensive back Caleb Ransaw was announced as a recipient of an invitation to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl. The athletic ...

Many long-serving volunteers at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance have been told their services are no longer needed on school tours of the commemorative site. The Shrine’s 70 volunteers were ...

Uehara was among them. The war dead were enshrined by the state as "heroic spirits" at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. However, Uehara had told his sister, "Even if I die, I'm not going to Yasukuni.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a "masakaki" tree offering to the Yasukuni Shrine on October 17, 2024, during its autumn festival. The shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead ...

No Japanese premier has visited Yasukuni Shrine since 2013 and Ishiba’s predecessor Fumio Kishida would also regularly send offerings for its biannual spring and autumn festivals. Yasukuni in ...