Yasukuni Shrine is a major Shinto shrine in Japan honoring the dead of the Imperial Japanese Army from the Sino-Japanese War (1899) to World War II. Established in 1869 in Kudanshita in Tokyo, the shrine encompasses gardens, a shrine, and a museum of...

The Yasukuni Shrine has been a source of antiwar sentiment in East Asia because of its association with the Shinto bushido warrior code. Yasukuni has been visited routinely by members of the royal family, but civil politicians have been criticized for...

Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社, 靖國神社?, Yasukuni Jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the spirits of soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. In October 2004, its Book of Souls listed the...

A small improvement in Japan-Korea relations ANYONE who goes to a particular shady corner of Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine at 10am on October 15th will come across a curious sight. There, around a stone tablet some five feet high with a rock balanced...

No surrender by Koizumi Koizumi visits Yasukuni THIS time, there was no fanfare or advance warning. On April 21st, Junichiro Koizumi, dressed in a morning suit, paid an unexpected visit to Yasukuni shrine, a memorial to Japan's war dead. By going...