3+ week, 6+ day ago   (323+ words) Kobayashi Takayuki, policy research council chairman of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday, completing a sweep in which all four of the party's top officials have now paid their respects at the controversial Tokyo shrine. The…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) South Korea's ruling and opposition parties on Saturday jointly condemned Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and other cabinet ministers, as well as senior officials of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, for visiting Yasukuni Shrine on Liberation Day — which also marks…...

4+ week, 19+ hour ago   (553+ words) South Korea's government on Saturday condemned offerings and visits to Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese political figures, and summoned a Japanese defense official to lodge a strong protest over Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro's visit to the shrine — the first by a…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (224+ words) South Korea's government strongly criticized senior Japanese officials for offering tributes or paying visits to Yasukuni Shrine, calling the acts "anachronistic behavior that forgets history." The Foreign Ministry issued a spokesperson's statement Saturday saying it "cannot but deplore" the repeated…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (384+ words) Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae made no mention of remorse for Japan's wartime aggression on Saturday, which marks both Korea's Liberation Day and Japan's defeat in World War II. By again dropping the word "remorse" — a term that acknowledges Japan's responsibility…...