It wasn’t mosquito coils and a springtime fish--Katori (香取) and Sawara ... created shrines to pray for protection from natural disasters. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), one of Japan’s ...

South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering ...

North Korea has criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for making a ritual offering to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, saying that it again demonstrated Japan's pursuit of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to mark the start of its spring festival on Monday. Ishiba gave the shrine a potted plant known as ...

The main shrine building sits atop a flight of stone stairs and is surrounded by cloisters. Image: Vicki L Beyer Legend has it that Emperor Chuai (149-200 AD) spent most of his years as emperor in the ...

A group of Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial shrine in Tokyo Tuesday during a three-day spring festival, despite opposition from South Korea, according to local media reports. Around 70 ...

Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)--Some 70 lawmakers of both chambers of Japan's parliament on Tuesday visited together war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its spring festival. They are members ...