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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Yasukuni Shrine -- a 20-building complex on 25 acres of land in Tokyo built 132 years ago -- honors Japan's nearly 2.5 million war dead from both civil and international wars ...

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 ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past brutal militarism, on the occasion of its spring festival.

China has lodged a protest after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and dozens of lawmakers visited it ...

About 70 members of the Japanese National Assembly visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where Class A war criminals from the Pacific War are enshrined. On the 22nd, Japanese lawmakers are ...