Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

and fulfil my responsibility as the symbol of the state and of the ... renounced his divinity at the end of World War Two, as part of Japan's surrender. Today, the role is largely ceremonial ...

Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring ...

Many South Koreans associate the rising sun flag with a long list of war crimes and oppression - and see Japan's continued use of the symbol as emblematic of Tokyo's failure to address its past.