Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社 or 靖國神社, Yasukuni Jinja, lit. 'Peaceful Country Shrine') is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded by Emperor...

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...

line of duty. Such shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine. They were originally...

be tarnished by the Senkaku Islands dispute and Abe's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. Abe, in his four terms as the prime minister of Japan, sought to upgrade...

forced abduction by the government and military. Regarding visits to Yasukuni Shrine by state officials and statements rejecting the wrongs of Japan during...

the number of shrines at 79,467, mostly affiliated with the Association of Shinto Shrines (神社本庁). Some shrines, such as the Yasukuni Shrine, are totally...

Why Yasukuni shrine is a controversial symbol of Japan's war legacy". Reuters. 15 August 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2023. "Hirohito visits to Yasukuni stopped...

the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, and through his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine that fueled diplomatic tensions with neighbouring China and South Korea...

military and war museum located within Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo. As a museum maintained by the shrine, which is dedicated to the souls of soldiers...

official statements claiming that the visits of Japanese politicians to Yasukuni Shrine hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, it is able to express dissatisfaction...

financial support for most shrines, aside from select Imperial shrines tied to state functions.: 113  In 1869 Yasukuni Shrine was first built under the...

of these war criminals among the dead honoured at Yasukuni Shrine has meant that visits to Yasukuni have been seen by Chinese and South Koreans as apologism...

won only two seats in the Kaohsiung City council. The visit to the Yasukuni Shrine by TSU chairman Shu Chin-chiang in April 2005 generated a controversy...

her first visit to the Yasukuni Shrine since becoming defense minister. Inada's visit followed by a day a visit to the shrine by Minister for reconstruction...

the Imperial Palace, Hibiya Park, National Museum of Modern Art, and Yasukuni Shrine take up approximately 2.6 km2 (1 sq. mi.), or 22%. Chiyoda is known...

Korea and China for annually paying his respects to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines all those who fought and died for Imperial Japan as...

Former Prime Ministers Koizumi Junichiro and Nakasone Yasuhiro visited Yasukuni Shrine during their time as Prime Ministers. This upset Chinese and Korean...

cabinet to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in 2014, became the first sitting cabinet member to attend the shrine's autumn festival in 2016, and was...

enshrinement of convicted war criminals, Naruhito has never visited Yasukuni Shrine. He is interested in water policy and water conservation and likes...

Eurasian (American-Japanese Hāfu) person to be commemorated in Japan's Yasukuni Shrine. Kurusu was born on January 8, 1919, in Chicago, Illinois, United States...

world's second-largest economy by 1989. Surviving veterans visit the Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to their fallen comrades. Even after defeat, Japan would...

the People's Liberation Army's revisionist comments. Visits to the Yasukuni Shrine by prominent Japanese officials, as well as some Japanese history textbooks...

nationalist expression of patriotic sentiment. From this period, the Yasukuni Shrine (founded in 1869) was converted into a focus for nationalist sentiment...

Ohka Monument at Kenchō-ji Zen temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa, and the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The only operational Ohka was the Model 11. Essentially a...

ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzō Abe, having paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors all Japanese war dead, including convicted Class A war...

World War, located near the inner moat of the Imperial Palace and Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. The recovery of remains from the Pacific War presented...

"Spirit Pacifying Shrine") is a small wooden Shinto shrine located directly south of Yasukuni Shrine's honden (main shrine) in Yasukuni Shrine precinct. It...

photos taken years earlier in Japan at a spot near the Yasukuni Shrine and Nogi Shrine due to the shrines' honoring of imperial Japanese military officers who...

significant shrines or Kokuhei Shōsha (国幣小社) includes 50 sanctuaries. Gokoku shrines were ranked separately. They were considered branches of Yasukuni Shrine. This...

minister in 1940, and one of the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine. Shiratori served as Director of Information Bureau under the Foreign...