An aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who also serves as an upper house member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday.
China on Monday voiced "firm" opposition after two Japanese cabinet members paid homage to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.
Six people were injured on Friday evening after a car crashed into the fence of the Erawan Shrine, the popular tourist attraction in central Bangkok, local media reported.
China on Friday urged Japan's political figures to uphold correct conception of history after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine.
Amid a thaw of relations between Washington and Havana, U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday visited a shrine in Miami in the southern state of Florida to honor Cuban Americans.
The chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's coalition ally on Tuesday admonished the visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine by Cabinet ministers and throngs of lawmakers on Tuesday, describing the homage as " undesirable."
Despite repeated strong opposition from China, a group of 168 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday visited the controversial war-link Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japanese war criminals of World War II.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se called off his scheduled visit to Japan this week due to visits from some Japanese cabinet members to a controversial shrine on Sunday, the Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.
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