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Conservatives assert that Yasukuni, which was established in 1869 as Japan emerged from more than 250 years of isolation, is meant to commemorate all the nation's war dead and is not a shrine ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the anniversary on Thursday of its defeat in World War Two with visits by at least three cabinet ministers to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that other Asian ...
The red graffiti on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine was discovered early Saturday. In a video posted on Chinese social media, a man who identified himself as Iron Head criticized ...
Yasukuni Shrine; March 2012. There are a number of controversies relating to Yasukuni Shrine and its war museum Yūshūkan in Tokyo, Japan. The shrine is based on State Shinto, as opposed to traditional Japanese Shinto, and has a close history with Statism in Shōwa Japan. Most of the dead served the Emperors of Japan during wars from 1867 to ...
Statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv Yasukuni Shrine has been the subject of political controversies due to the war criminals enshrined there.. The reception of individuals guilty of violations of international criminal law after a conflict differs greatly, ranging from bringing them to justice in war crimes trials to ignoring their crimes or even glorifying them as heroes.
The controversial shrine honors convicted war criminals among about 2.5 million war dead. ... Kishida abstained from praying at the Yasukuni Shrine just a block away and sent a religious ornament ...
The controversy regarding Chinreisha arose with the Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni shrine on December 26, 2013. However, in an official statement, Abe stated that he "also visited Chinreisha, a remembrance memorial to pray for the souls of all the people regardless of nationalities who lost their lives in the war" and that he "renewed [his] determination before the ...
Early in the day, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead but did not visit out of apparent consideration for ties with South Korea and China. Past visits ...