The severe rainstorm from last night has stopped. The sunshine is bright for early winter. The leaves on the trees have not…

[Who enshrines the dead? A widely held international principle, that surviving family members determine the disposition of the dead, including those who…

[Approximately 6,000 people in Japan and overseas have filed lawsuits in six district courts, charging that Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro’s repeated visits…

[The singing of Japan’s national anthem Kimigayo, an ode to the emperor, and the flying of the Hinomaru flag, both evocative of…

The Yasukuni shrine to Japan’s war dead, more specifically to those who gave their lives for the Japanese emperor, has long been…

According to a survey by the Ministry of Education and Science, this spring’s graduation ceremonies’ enforcement rate of singing “Kimigayo” (the Japanese…