Offerings to the shrine - a rite commonly ... regret" that Japanese leaders have made such gestures or visited the shrine. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning urged Tokyo to "face ...

Ukraine's ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky has been slammed on Chinese social media ... China condemn Kishida's ritual ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a ritual offering Oct. 17 to a Shinto shrine in Tokyo that Chinese and Koreans view as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, but did not go in person.

"It is inadvisable for the Ukrainian ambassador in Japan to pay homage to the Yasukuni Shrine and offend China," the paper stated. Visits to Yasukuni by officials and offerings to the temple on ...

On Sunday, markings resembling Chinese characters ... such as making offerings in the main hall. In the first days of the New Year, millions visit the shrine to partake in the year's first prayers ...