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Apr 21, 2021
Suga sends offering to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine
The prime minister does not plan to visit the shrine during a two-day spring festival through Thursday.
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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2020
Abe visits war-related Yasukuni Shrine for second straight month
Abe last visited the shrine on Sept. 19, three days after leaving office.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2020
North Korea criticizes Abe's visit to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine
Abe, regarded by neighboring countries as a hawkish conservative, said in a Twitter post three days after his resignation that he visited the shrine.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2020
Abe visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine for first time since 2013
This visit was the ex-PM's first since December 2013, after refraining from doing so for most of his term to avoid angering China and South Korea.
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JAPAN
Aug 18, 2020
Another Japanese minister visits war-linked Yasukuni Shrine
Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura visited a day after four Cabinet colleagues were seen at the controversial site.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2020
Shinjiro Koizumi and other Japan ministers visit war-linked Yasukuni
Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi was the first Cabinet member since 2016 to visit the shrine in central Tokyo on the Aug. 15 anniversary.
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JAPAN
May 5, 2020
Graffiti threatening to 'kill all' Wuhan residents found at Yasukuni Shrine
The threats, written using what appeared to be black marker, were first discovered Monday afternoon.
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JAPAN
Apr 21, 2020
Abe sends ritual tree offering to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to controversial Yasukuni Shrine as its spring festival began Tuesday under the nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 26, 2019
Japan PM Takeshita heeded warning to avoid Yasukuni before 1988 China trip
In August 1988, the Japanese ambassador to China urged Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita not to visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, months before his trip to the country, declassified diplomatic records showed Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 24, 2019
Chinese man gets suspended term for throwing ink at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine
A court sentenced a Chinese man on Monday to 14 months in prison, suspended for three years, for intruding into the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and damaging a drape by throwing ink on it earlier this year.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 30, 2019
Ex-PM Yasuhiro Nakasone nurtured ties with Beijing and Seoul but created a stink over Yasukuni
Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a conservative politician who died Friday at the age of 101, is recognized in China as the leader who helped usher in a so-called honeymoon-like period in bilateral relations with Japan in the 1980s.
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JAPAN
Oct 18, 2019
Nearly 100 Japan lawmakers, including another minister, visit Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni
Internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi, as well as a cross-party group of about 100 lawmakers, paid homage Friday at war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival, a day after a visit from a different Cabinet minister drew criticism from China and South Korea.
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Oct 17, 2019
Seiichi Eto becomes first Japan minister to visit Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in over two years
The last Cabinet minister to visit was Sanae Takaichi in April 2017.
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Oct 15, 2019
Abe won't visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during autumn festival, sources say
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, viewed as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism by neighboring countries, during its annual autumn festival, government and ruling party sources said Tuesday.
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JAPAN
Oct 9, 2019
Visits to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ministers may resume after more than two years
Since conservatives close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined his Cabinet in a reshuffle last month, there has been speculation that visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo by Cabinet ministers may resume after a halt of 2½ years.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Oct 6, 2019
Japan Times 1944: 20,197 war dead enshrined at Yasukuni
With all lights extinguished in the traditional manner, ceremonies of utmost solemnity for the deification of the nation's fallen heroes were held last night at Yasukuni Shrine.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2019
Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine vandalized by man claiming to be Chinese
A man claiming to be Chinese was arrested for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
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Aug 15, 2019
Emperor Naruhito follows father's lead in expressing 'deep remorse' over WWII at memorial service
In 2015, then-Emperor Akihito sent shock waves across the nation by expressing remorse over Japan's involvement in the war.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 15, 2019
Abe sends ritual offering to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on anniversary of WWII surrender
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday, the 74th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, but refrained from visiting the Shinto shrine on the day for the seventh year in a row.
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JAPAN
Aug 13, 2019
Yasukuni's bid for emperor to visit on 150th anniversary was rebuffed, sources reveal
An invitation to then Emperor Akihito from Yasukuni Shrine to mark the 150th anniversary this year of its establishment was declined last fall by his aides, it was learned Tuesday.

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