(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by ... Takamaro Fukuoka and economic ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by Japan's neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism, began a three-day spring ...

Ishiba has no plans to visit the Shinto shrine during the three-day festival, according to people familiar with the matter. Neighboring countries regard the shrine as a symbol of Japan's past ...

Yasukuni, however, has long been a source of diplomatic friction with China and South Korea, as the shrine honors Japan's wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by a post-World War II ...

Ishiba sent a ritual "masakasi" tree branch offering for the two-day springtime festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which commemorates millions of Japan's war dead -- including numerous figures ...

A whopping 3,292,500 foreign tourists visited Japan in July, a record high for a single month, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced. The total number of visitors from January ...

The aircraft had been travelling to a hospital in Fukuoka from an airport in Nagasaki ... were later recovered by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force helicopter. Their hearts had stopped, and they ...

The spring-summer collection we launched in Delhi last month was a collaboration with Bemberg, an eco-friendly textile produced by the Japan-based ... of Harajuku, the shrine feels like a portal.

The shrine is seen by Beijing and Seoul as a symbol of Japan's past military aggression because it includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal among the 2 ...

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In response to extreme summer heat, all eight post offices in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have been designated as official “cooling shelters.” The agreement between the city and Japan Post was ...