The historic Gwanwoldang structure has been repatriated to Korea, revealing intricate components for restoration at the Traditional Architecture Elements Conservation Center.

Unresolved colonial histories and collective traumas continue to shape relations in East Asia through significant historical ...

A Japanese Cabinet minister on Sunday visited a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead, including war criminals, a gesture that has repeatedly caused friction with Japan's neighbors. Lawmaker Keiji ...

Dozens of Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday paid their respects at a war shrine vilified as a symbol of the country's past militarism, amid concerns Tokyo may build up its armed forces against the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalized again overnight Monday.

The Japanese lawmakers who went to the shrine defended their decision to go to the site where 14 of Japan’s Class-A war criminals from World War II are enshrined with thousands of Japanese soldiers.

Priests attend the Autumn Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine to present the Imperial offerings and read the Gosaimon, or Imperial message, on October 19, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. Getty Images ...

TOKYO — A group of about 100 Japanese lawmakers prayed at a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression on Tuesday, 80 years after Japan’s attack on ...

Shinzo Abe, the new Japanese prime minister, already faces an important symbolic test: Will he visit a controversial shrine that honors the nation's war dead — including war criminals blamed for ...