The visits this year marked the largest number since Shinzo Abe began his second stint as prime minister in December 2012. Abe himself did not visit Yasukuni, but sent a representative with a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial visit to the Yasukuni Shrine has met with a stronger-than-expected ...

Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist ... straining ties with China. Shinzo Abe, whose agenda included reviving pride in Japan’s past, visited in December 2013, saying ...

The Yasukuni Shrine is regarded by China ... February 2023 – Abe’s memoir, “Abe Shinzo: Kaikoroku,” is published. It was originally scheduled to be published a year ago, but the book ...

A provocative move by Japanese prime Minister Shinzo Abe probably won't help. Abe visited Japan's highly controversial Yasukuni shrine (part of which is seen above) that "venerates the souls" of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe all but squandered the chance to meet with President Park Geun-hye by visiting the ...

Yasukuni is a private religious body, and no prime minister has visited since 2013, when then-leader Shinzo Abe drew ...

Abe's visit to Yasukuni shrine represents an attempt to link his economic successes with his other policy objectives.

People in Japan—and around the world—are waiting for an update on the condition of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo after he was shot in Nara city. This is how the tragedy is unfolding ...

China must take "excessive" counter-measures after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial ... a "strong reprimand" after Abe paid respects at the Yasukuni shrine.

Watanabe cultivated close ties with conservative leaders who governed the country across decades, like Yasuhiro Nakasone and Shinzo Abe ... at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, and ...

Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Personal Birth date: September 21, 1954 Death date: July 8, 2022 Birth place: Nagato, Japan (some sources say Tokyo) Father: ...