The controversial Tokyo shrine’s wide stone path, normally reserved for quiet prayers and camera-clicking tourists, ...

With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a celebration of some kind. If you feel like braving the summer ...

North Korea has criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for making a ritual offering to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, saying that it again demonstrated Japan's pursuit of ...

A group of Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial shrine in Tokyo Tuesday during a three-day spring festival, despite opposition from South Korea, according to local media reports. Around 70 ...

This photo taken on April 21, 2025, at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its spring festival.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to mark the start of its spring festival on Monday. Ishiba gave the shrine a potted plant known as ...