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 ...

SEOUL, April 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Tuesday expressed deep regret over Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ritual offering to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the occasion of ...

SEOUL, April 22 (UPI) --South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to a shrine seen by many as an unapologetic symbol ...

South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" over an offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to Yasukuni Shrine, which is seen by Seoul as an unapologetic symbol ...

SEOUL, April 22 (UPI) --South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to a shrine seen by many as an unapologetic ...

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.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival on Monday. Ishiba has no plans to visit the ...

TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past brutal militarism, on the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has no plans to visit Yasukuni Shrine during the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival next week, people close to him said Friday. Instead, Ishiba plans to make ...

The presence of Japanese design was threaded across the creative spectrum ... This is not a light I would have designed ten years ago,' Tamura tells Wallpaper* at Rho Fiera. 'So much has changed in ...

Image: Pakutaso However, being a picturesque place means lots of people coming to take pictures, and Otaru, like many of Japan’s most popular tourism destinations, is struggling with issues related to ...

(Mainichi/Hideyuki Yamada) MORIOKA -- The head of a local geisha supporters' group in this northeastern Japan city has sparked controversy by saying, "After all, it's men who call for geisha.