TOKYO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court in Tokyo on Friday rejected the request from the bereaved families of Koreans enshrined in a controversial war shrine to have their names removed. The lawsuit was filed in October 2013 by 27 people who sought the elimination of their relatives’ names from Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Yasukuni Shrine, which honors convicted war criminals along with Japan’s war dead, has long been a controversial place for many East Asian people. Visits to the shrine by Japan’s Prime Minister and high-ranking officials might be interpreted as a denial of past history and belittling its neighboring nations. [...]
JEONJU, South Korea, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean man, jailed at a Japanese prison for detonating a time bomb in a public restroom at a controversial Tokyo war shrine in 2015, has been suffering human rights abuses during his incarceration, the man’s mother claimed Tuesday. “My son was complaining of pains because [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in a Japanese Embassy minister Thursday to protest the Japanese defense minister’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial temple where war criminals from World War II are enshrined. The director-general of the ministry’s Northeast Asia Affairs Bureau, Chung Byung-won, officially lodged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the Japanese individuals that were reported by the Korean press for making thoughtless remarks during the past 10 years, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister ranked No.1 in terms of the number of mentions. Abe has made seemingly careless remarks about delicate issues that created a conflict between [...]