In a dark museum hall, a seven-year-old girl stared intently at a black-and-white image of corpses strewn haphazardly in a ...

Love for the motherland, or patriotism, is the third element in China’s World War II narrative, alongside hatred of Japanese ...

As Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is reported to be in a difficult situation heading into ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that Japan would continue negotiations with the United States to seek a bilateral trade deal that benefits both countries.

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between June 7 and 15. The first story was ...

A: Yasukuni shrine became a religious corporation after WWII. It maintains that "once a spirit is enshrined, it cannot be removed," and does not allow the separation of Class-A war criminals.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival on Monday. Ishiba has no plans to visit the ...

Ukraine’s ambassador to Japan has been criticised on social media in China for visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in what some commenters called an insult to the Chinese people ...

The Yasukuni Shrine, located in Tokyo, is one of Japan's most contentious and politically charged sites. It’s a place that commemorates Japan’s war dead, including several war criminals from World War ...

Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, has again been vandalized.

The Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward reported a new case of vandalism Monday, with staff discovering graffiti on a stone pillar and calling police at around 3:50 a.m. Tokyo police are ...