Japan's political elites are scrambling for new allies following the collapse of the ruling coalition that left even the ...

Takaichi Sanae, 64 years old, the newly elected president of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who is poised to become ...

The leadership contest of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has brought the contentious issue of visits to the ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Saturday, his first visit since December 2013, after refraining from doing so for most of his term ...

President Sanae Takaichi speaks to media after meeting with Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on ...

TOKYO >> Japan marked the anniversary on Thursday of its defeat in World War Two with visits by at least three cabinet ministers to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that other Asian nations see as a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ...

TOKYO (AP) — China and South Korea reacted strongly Friday to visits by three Japanese Cabinet ministers to a Tokyo shrine that honors the war dead including convicted war criminals, although Japan’s ...

Japan's Komeito Party representative Tetsuo Saito, during his meeting with elected ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tensions flared between Japan and its Asian neighbours after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, and ...