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[Breaking News]Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 17 Kyodo - Video taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival. (Kyodo)

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Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine

Ichiro Aisawa (L), leader of a cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers for visiting Yasukuni Shrine, speaks during a press conference after the group's visit to the war-linked Shinto shrine in Tokyo on the occasion of the shrine's three-day autumn festival on Oct. 17, 2025.

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Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine

A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, including Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya (foreground L), visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on the occasion of the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival on Oct. 17, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

Photo taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering (L) sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival.

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

TOKYO, Japan, April 21 Kyodo - Video taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's two-day spring festival. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

Photo taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering (next to lantern) sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's two-day spring festival.

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Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

Photo taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering (next to lantern) sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's two-day spring festival.

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Shrine known for matchmaking blessings

Photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2018, shows Tokyo Daijingu, a Shinto shrine known for its matchmaking blessings.

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Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine

TOKYO, Japan, April 23 Kyodo - A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, during the Shinto shrine's spring festival on April 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi (R) visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, during the Shinto shrine's spring festival on April 23, 2024.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi meets the press after visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, during the Shinto shrine's spring festival on April 23, 2024.

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Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine

A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, during the Shinto shrine's spring festival on April 23, 2024.

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Japan lawmakers visit Yasukuni shrine

A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers visits Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, during the Shinto shrine's spring festival on April 23, 2024.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, as the Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival begins.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic revitalization minister Yoshitaka Shindo meets the press after visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, as the Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival begins.

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Japan PM Kishida's ritual offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine

Photo taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2024, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the occasion of the Shinto shrine's three-day spring festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, the first day of the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi meets the press during a visit to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, the first day of the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, the first day of the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Photo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, the first day of the Shinto shrine's autumn festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Photo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, the first day of the Shinto shrine's autumn festival.

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Yasukuni shrine

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, as the Shinto shrine's autumn festival begins.

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Yasukuni shrine

Yoshitaka Shindo, Japanese minister in charge of economic revitalization, visits the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2023, as the Shinto shrine's autumn festival begins.

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CORRECTED: Yasukuni shrine

People offer silent prayers at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine on Aug. 15, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The Shinto shrine honors more than 2.4 million war dead.

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Yasukuni shrine

People offer silent prayers at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine on Aug. 15, 2023, the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The Shinto shrine honors more than 24 million war dead.

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Japan PM Kishida's ritual offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine

Photo taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 21, 2023, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the occasion of the Shinto shrine's two-day spring festival.

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Le Pen at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - French nationalist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shakes hands with a Shinto priest as he visited the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2010.

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State minister Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - State minister Sanae Takaichi emerges from Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15 after praying at the Shinto shrine on the 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II. Takaichi, state minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, was the sole Cabinet member to make an appearance at the shrine on the end-of-war day.

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Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine en masse

TOKYO, Japan - Led by a Shinto priest, Yoshinobu Shimamura (C), a former agriculture minister, leads a group of lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, the 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II. The Shinto shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead.

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Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine en masse

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, the 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II. The Shinto shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead.

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Scene of shrine head murder in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 15 Kyodo - Police officers work at the scene of a murder-suicide at Tomioka Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2017.

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Kyoto nursery school kids draw pictures

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows children at the Iwaya Nursery School in Kyoto, Japan, drawing pictures in November 2014. Run by the Iwaya shinto shrine, the school focuses on the mental development of children.

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Princess Noriko, husband Senge host wedding party

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (extreme R), a daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, and her husband Kunimaro Senge (2nd from R), the eldest son of the chief priest of the Izumo Taisha Shinto shrine in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, listen to a speech during their wedding party at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 8, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen at the center. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko, husband Senge listen to crown prince

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko, a daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, and Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of the Izumo Taisha Shinto shrine in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, listen to Crown Prince Naruhito's speech during their wedding party at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 8, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko relinquishes imperial family status

TOKYO, Japan - Imperial Household Agency Grand Steward Noriyuki Kazaoka registers on Oct. 6, 2014, at the Imperial Household Agency's Archives and Mausolea Department in Tokyo that Princess Noriko, a daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, lost her imperial family status after she married Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of Izumo Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Shimane Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko bids farewell to emperor, empress

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko, daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, bows after receiving words from Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a ceremony on Oct. 2, 2014, at Seiden-Matsu-no-Ma (State Room) of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo before her Oct. 5 marriage to Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan. (Pool photo)

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Kurozumi-kyo grassroots Shinto chief chants sunrise prayer

TOKYO, Japan - Muneharu Kurozumi (L), chief patriarch of the Kurozumi-kyo school of grassroots Shinto, chants a purification sunrise prayer at the sect's headquarters in Okayama, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 7, 2014. The practice has continued since the foundation of the sect in 1814, with this year marking its 200th anniversary.

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Fuso-kyo grassroots Shinto priests perform fire ritual

TOKYO, Japan - Priests of Fuso-kyo, a Japanese grassroots Shinto sect based on the worship of Mt. Fuji, perform a fire ritual at its shrine in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on June 3, 2014.

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Grassroots Shinto group chief seeks more public awareness

TOKYO, Japan - Masanori Yoshimura, head of the Kyoha Shinto Federation comprising sects separated from Japan's traditional Shinto religion dedicated to "kami" (god) worship, expresses his wish during an interview in August 2014 that people will learn more about grassroots Shintoism.

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Yasukuni Shrine on anniv. of end of WWII

TOKYO, Japan - Many people visit Yasukuni Shrine, a World War II-related Shinto shrine, in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2014, to commemorate the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

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Defense minister thanks Gunma village over Osprey exercise

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) shows his appreciation to Shinto Mayor Narumi Akuzawa at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, for the decision by the village assembly in Gunma Prefecture to accept a Japan-U.S. joint exercise involving MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft.

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SDF camps attracting students as part of social study program

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 14, 2014 shows junior high school students listening to a Japan Self-Defense Force member's explanations about a helicopter at the Ground SDF's Somagahara camp in Shinto, Gunma Prefecture.

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MPD riot squad members gather for parade

TOKYO, Japan - The Metropolitan Police Department's riot squad members line up at the outer garden of the Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on May 22, 2014 for a parade.

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Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 22, 2014, shows priests of Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity and other religions gathering for a regular meeting of their group at Ikegami Honmonji, a Buddhism temple of the Nichiren sect, in Tokyo's Ota Ward.

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Suit over Abe's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state and Yasukuni Shrine hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2014. The 273 plaintiffs including relatives of the war dead, religious people and South Koreans filed the lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court the same day, claiming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit in December 2013 to the Shinto shrine was unconstitutional.

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Suit over Abe's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state and Yasukuni Shrine enter the Tokyo District Court on April 21, 2014. The 273 plaintiffs including relatives of the war dead, religious people and South Koreans filed the lawsuit the same day, claiming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit in December 2013 to the Shinto shrine was unconstitutional.