Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist past and ... Emperor Hirohito, in whose name Japanese soldiers fought the war, visited Yasukuni eight times between the conflict’s ...

As Japan's Emperor Naruhito travels across the country to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II this year, he ...

But the flame is far from the most interesting part of this unusual symbol ... “The Japanese ... were extremely grateful to the United States for how we helped them after [World War II], that ...