Yasukuni in a sentence

Editor-in-chief of the conservative Yomiuri Shimbun Tsuneo Watanabe criticized the Yasukuni Shrine as a bastion of revisionism: "The Yasukuni Shrine runs a museum where they show items in order to encourage and worship militarism.

A regular visitor to Yasukuni, Takaichi is known as a revisionist who downplays Japan’s wartime atrocities, and has called for a tougher stance on China.

Can South Korea accept a new Japanese prime minister visiting Yasukuni Shrine?

Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival from Sunday.

In a related case in May of this year, the same stone pillar at Yasukuni Shrine was also defaced.

In May, a stone pillar at Yasukuni was spray-painted red.

His government has been a shambles since last December and he's lost all control, hence the flurry of visits to Yasukuni from the extremists last week.

Since 2013, Abe has not visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where wartime leaders convicted as war criminals are honoured with war dead, avoiding a potential flashpoint with Beijing.

In recent years, there have been protests, demonstrations and calls for boycotts when the dispute over the Senkaku Islands has flared up or when senior political figures visited Yasukuni Shrine.

Visits by Japanese leaders to Yasukuni have angered the country’s neighbors, particularly China and South Korea, as the site honors convicted war criminals including wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo, along with more than 2.4 million war dead.

A man dressed as a Japanese Imperial Army soldier sits near a gate to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, on Wednesday.

However, Beijing may be mollified by the fact that Abe has refrained from visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine – where war dead (including a handful of war criminals) are enshrined – since 2013.

Something which can turn any news story such as this about the chief priest of Yasukuni into pro-Korean dialogue.

According to a brief reference to Nanking at the Yasukuni museum in Tokyo, the Japanese general in charge gave his men maps showing foreign settlements and a civilian "safety zone", and ordered them to maintain strict military discipline.

His son, Nagayoshi, succeeded Fujimaro Tsukuba as the chief priest of Yasukuni and decided to enshrine the war criminals in 1978. citation Nagayoshi Matsudaira died in 2006, which some commentators have speculated is the reason for release of the memo.

On July 20, 2006, Nihon Keizai Shimbun published a front page article about the discovery of a memorandum detailing the reason that the Emperor stopped visiting Yasukuni.

The sergeant major was posthumously promoted to second lieutenant by the emperor and was enshrined at Yasukuni.

Tsukuba is believed to refer to Fujimaro Tsukuba, the former chief Yasukuni priest at the time, who decided not to enshrine the war criminals despite having received in 1966 the list of war dead compiled by the government.

Yasukuni is the only shrine deifying common men which the Emperor would visit to pay his respects".