Yasukuni Shrine
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 i...
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Yasukuni Shrine Controversy
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...
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Thirty-nine lawmakers, including two with senior government
posts, of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition
Democratic Party of Japan visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shr...
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A senior vice minister, two parliamentary secretaries and a
special adviser to the prime minister were among 67 lawmakers who
visited the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday to
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday remained silent
on whether he will visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo,
even after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao repeated earlier in the...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday visited a cemetery for
unknown soldiers who died in World War II, but he and his Cabinet
ministers are not expected to make a contentious visit during t...
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(EDS: RECASTING)
State minister Sanae Takaichi visited the war-related Yasukuni
Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday, the 62nd anniversary of the end of
World War II, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
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Tokyo (dpa) - All of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet
members were expected to skip this year's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on
next week's anniversary of the end of...
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(EDS: ADDING MORE INFO)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to Yasukuni
Shrine in late April on the occasion of the Tokyo shrine's spring
festival, a source familiar with the...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH TAKAICHI'S PLAN TO VISIT YASUKUNI)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a cemetery Wednesday for
unknown soldiers who died in World War II, but is not expected to
visit the ...
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(EDS: ADDING MORE INFO)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to Yasukuni
Shrine in late April on the occasion of the Tokyo shrine's spring
festival, a source familiar with the...
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Tokyo (dpa) - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao urged his Japanese
counterpart Shinzo Abe to pay no more visits to the war-related
Yasukuni Shrine and to try to promote furt...
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Yasukuni Shrine
39 LDP, DPJ lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine
