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YASUKUNI SHRINE

Economic growth strategy minister Minoru Kiuchi speaks to reporters as he visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Apr 22, 2026
Minister¡¯s offering at Yasukuni first shrine visit by Takaichi Cabinet member
Economic growth strategy minister Minoru Kiuchi signed a visitor¡¯s book as a minister and offered a tamagushi sacred tree branch at his own expense.
An offering sent by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, on Tuesday
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Apr 21, 2026
Takaichi risks China¡¯s wrath with offering to Yasukuni Shrine
The prime minister¡¯s offering of a sacred tree was made on the first day of a traditional spring festival.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Apr 17, 2026
Takaichi to skip Yasukuni visit during spring festival
Takaichi has rarely missed visiting the Shinto shrine during its spring and autumn festivals, including while serving as internal affairs minister and in other Cabinet posts.
Flowering cherry blossoms and buds from a sample Somei Yoshino cherry tree at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier this month
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Mar 29, 2026
Cherry blossoms are now in full bloom in Tokyo
The Japan Meteorological Agency¡¯s announcement came three days earlier than average and two days earlier than last year.
Flowering cherry blossoms and buds from a sample Somei Yoshino cherry tree at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Mar 19, 2026
Tokyo¡¯s cherry blossom season officially begins
The cherry season for Tokyo starts when the official sample tree at Yasukuni Shrine opens at least five flowers.
Claims by China that Japan is returning to militarism are misleading because legal and institutional constraints make such a shift unlikely and current defense reforms reflect practical responses to changing regional threats.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2026
Debunking the myth of Japanese militarism
It is necessary to be clear on this point: Japan in 2026 is not the Japan of 1936.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a news conference at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 9 following the party's landslide victory in a Lower House election the day before.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Feb 16, 2026
Takaichi declared ¡®world¡¯s most powerful woman¡¯ by The Economist
Following the success in the Feb. 8 Lower House election, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi now ¡°has a historic chance to transform her country,¡± the British magazine said.
A visitor makes his way to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on the first day of its annual autumn festival on Friday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Oct 20, 2025
Takaichi skips Yasukuni visit during autumn festival
With a vote on the next prime minister set for Tuesday, the new LDP president apparently took into account the possibility that any visit could adversely impact foreign affairs.
Past visits by top Japanese leaders to Yasukuni Shrine, which also honors convicted war criminals, have infuriated China and South Korea, and no prime minister has visited since 2013.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Oct 17, 2025
Takaichi sends offering to Yasukuni Shrine but will not visit
Top Japanese leaders visiting the shrine also honoring convicted war criminals have infuriated China and South Korea in the past, and no prime minister has visited since 2013.
Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, before she was elected the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Oct 16, 2025
Over 40% back Takaichi visiting Yasukuni Shrine, poll shows
Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has repeatedly visited the shrine, which enshrines Class-A war criminals from World War II among the war dead.
Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, following her visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Oct 8, 2025
Takaichi may skip Yasukuni visit during Autumn Festival
The new LDP chief is apparently taking into account the impact a visit might have ahead of busy diplomatic schedule and how it could hurt relations with coalition partner Komeito.
Lawmakers from both chambers of Japan's parliament who are members of a league of parliamentarians promoting Yasukuni Shrine visits walk inside the shrine in Tokyo on Friday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Aug 15, 2025
Cabinet ministers Koizumi and Kato visit Yasukuni Shrine
The visits marked the sixth consecutive year a Cabinet minister has visited the war-related shrine on the anniversary.
A carrier-based Type 52 Zero fighter marks the entrance foyer of Yasukuni Shrine's Yushukan, a museum that tells a more nuanced story of Japan's experience in World War II than the controversies around the shrine might suggest.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 8, 2025
Tokyo¡¯s WWII museums hold diverse views on war and peace
From detainees in Soviet labor camps to last-ditch efforts to develop miracle weapons, the capital¡¯s war museums tell a multitude of stories of a country in crisis.
People pray during a visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, the 79th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 20, 2025
Why only Japan is criticized for honoring its war dead
Other countries honor the ultimate sacrifice regardless of whether the war was just, later judged a mistake or involved actions that could be seen as war crimes.
A "masakaki" tree offering bearing the name of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is put up at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Apr 21, 2025
Ishiba gives a ritual tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine
Ishiba has no plans to visit the shrine during its three-day spring festival.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
Apr 18, 2025
Ishiba not to visit Yasukuni Shrine during spring festival
No sitting prime minister has paid a visit to the shrine since December 2013, when Shinzo Abe did so.
The cherry blossoms at Inokashira Park in Tokyo on Thursday
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Mar 30, 2025
Cherry blossoms come into full bloom in Tokyo
On Sunday, monitored sample cherry trees reached full bloom also in the cities of Wakayama and Matsuyama, both western Japan.
The entrance to Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo on Dec. 1
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Dec 25, 2024
Chinese man sentenced for vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine
According to the ruling, Jiang Zhuojun, 29, conspired with two other Chinese men to write ¡°toilet¡± in red spray paint on a pillar at the shrine.
The South Korean government holds its own memorial service for Korean gold miners on Nov. 25 in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, after skipping the one organized by local authorities the day before.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Dec 6, 2024
Kyodo News to remove senior editors over Yasukuni Shrine report
The agency reported in August 2022 that a lawmaker had visited the shrine based on unconfirmed information.
A stone pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, on which the word "toilet" was spray-painted in May
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Crime & Legal
Nov 29, 2024
Chinese man pleads guilty to role in vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine
Jiang Zhuojun said he assisted with the vandalizing to protest against Japan¡¯s discharging of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
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Yumiko Watanabe, the chairperson of nonprofit Kidsdoor, explains the results of a survey in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 1.
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