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Japan Hall of Fame award ceremony for Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki (L), who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, receives his plaque from Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Sadayuki Sakakibara during an award ceremony for his 2025 enshrinement in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in the central Japan city on Aug. 31, 2025.

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Japan Hall of Fame award ceremony for Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki (C), who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, poses for a photo with his plaque during an award ceremony for his 2025 enshrinement in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in the central Japan city on Aug. 31, 2025. Standing beside the former Seattle Mariners outfielder is former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui.

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Japan Hall of Fame award ceremony for Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki, who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, poses for a photo with his plaque during an award ceremony for his 2025 enshrinement in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in the central Japan city on Aug. 31, 2025.

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Yasukuni shrine

Koichi Hagiuda, former policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to the press after visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, viewed by Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism due to the enshrinement of wartime leaders convicted as war criminals alongside the some 2.4 million Japanese war dead honored at the shrine, on Aug. 15, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Yasukuni shrine

Former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato (R) and former Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Norihisa Tamura visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, viewed by Japan's Asian neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism due to the enshrinement of wartime leaders convicted as war criminals alongside the some 2.4 million Japanese war dead honored at the shrine, on Aug. 15, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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Court rejects suit against Yasukuni enshrinement

NAHA, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (front) of a suit against their relatives' enshrinement at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo makes an appeal in front of the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court in Okinawa Prefecture before the ruling on Sept. 6, 2011. The branch upheld the same day a lower court decision to reject the suit by five Okinawa Prefecture citizens, who asked the central government and the Shinto shrine to delist their 10 deceased relatives' enshrinement at the shrine and to pay a total of 500,000 yen in damages for mental pain they claim to have suffered from the enshrinement.

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Court rejects suit against enshrinement of Koreans at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean plaintiffs hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2011, after losing a suit earlier in the day at the Tokyo District Court, in which they called for the removal of their deceased relatives' names from a list of those enshrined collectively at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

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Court rejects suit against collective enshrinement at Yasukuni

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (L), who heads the group of plaintiffs in a Yasukuni Shrine-related lawsuit, speaks to reporters in Osaka on Feb. 26 after a court ruling. The Osaka District Court turned down the lawsuit by nine relatives that called for the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo to stop enshrining 11 servicemen and civilian employees of the former imperial Japanese forces.

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Kin of Battle of Okinawa victims sue Yasukuni over enshrinement

NAHA, Japan - Kozen Kawabata (2nd from L), the head of a group of plaintiffs who have launched a lawsuit against Yasukuni Shrine, speaks at a press conference in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 19. The five families of 10 civilians and soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa and at other places during World War II have filed a lawsuit against Yasukuni Shrine seeking to delist their relatives from those worshipped at the shrine.

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War bereaved families study separate enshrinement at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Koga, president of the Japan War-Bereaved Association, is surrounded by reporters after the association held its first meeting in Tokyo on May 8 to study the proposed separation of Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine. Koga, a former Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, has expressed support for the idea of separating the 14 Class-A war criminals from other souls enshrined at the shrine, mostly comprising the Japanese war dead.

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Suit filed to have Yasukuni annul enshrinement

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (4th from R), a 66-year-old Buddhist monk from Shimane Prefecture, Yang Yuan-huang (3rd from R), 51, from Taiwan, and other plaintiffs attend a news conference on Aug. 11 after filing a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court asking Yasukuni Shrine to annul the enshrinement of their war-dead family members honored there.

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Families of Taiwan war dead to protest against Yasukuni enshrinement

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan lawmaker Kao Chin Su-mei speaks at a press conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Aug. 9. Kao Chin said that dozens of family members of the war dead from Taiwan will visit Japan on Aug. 12 to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine and the enshrinement of their kin along with convicted 14 Japanese Class-A war criminals.

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(2)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presence

TOKYO, Japan - A group of Taiwan's indigenous people hold a protest rally in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on June 14 after giving up visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where they had planned to protest the enshrinement of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, to avoid a confrontation with Japanese rightists.

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(1)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presence

TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying a group of Taiwan's indigenous people is stranded near the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on June 14 after arriving there to protest the enshrinement at the shrine of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The Taiwanese decided not to go further to avoid confrontation with Japanese rightists because police officers told them that a group of right wingers was standing around the shrine.

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(1)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presen

TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying a group of Taiwan's indigenous people is stranded near the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on June 14 after arriving there to protest the enshrinement at the shrine of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The Taiwanese decided not to go further to avoid confrontation with Japanese rightists because police officers told them that a group of right wingers was standing around the shrine. (Kyodo)

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War bereaved families study separate enshrinement at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Koga, president of the Japan War-Bereaved Association, is surrounded by reporters after the association held its first meeting in Tokyo on May 8 to study the proposed separation of Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine. Koga, a former Liberal Democratic Party secretary general, has expressed support for the idea of separating the 14 Class-A war criminals from other souls enshrined at the shrine, mostly comprising the Japanese war dead. (Kyodo)

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(2)Taiwan natives cancel Yasukuni protest due to rightist presen

TOKYO, Japan - A group of Taiwan's indigenous people hold a protest rally in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district on June 14 after giving up visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where they had planned to protest the enshrinement of their relatives who died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, to avoid a confrontation with Japanese rightists. (Kyodo)

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Families of Taiwan war dead to protest against Yasukuni enshrine

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan lawmaker Kao Chin Su-mei speaks at a press conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Aug. 9. Kao Chin said that dozens of family members of the war dead from Taiwan will visit Japan on Aug. 12 to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine and the enshrinement of their kin along with convicted 14 Japanese Class-A war criminals. (Kyodo)

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Suit filed to have Yasukuni annul enshrinement

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (4th from R), a 66-year-old Buddhist monk from Shimane Prefecture, Yang Yuan-huang (3rd from R), 51, from Taiwan, and other plaintiffs attend a news conference on Aug. 11 after filing a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court asking Yasukuni Shrine to annul the enshrinement of their war-dead family members honored there. (Kyodo)

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Kin of Battle of Okinawa victims sue Yasukuni over enshrinement

NAHA, Japan - Kozen Kawabata (2nd from L), the head of a group of plaintiffs who have launched a lawsuit against Yasukuni Shrine, speaks at a press conference in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 19. The five families of 10 civilians and soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa and at other places during World War II have filed a lawsuit against Yasukuni Shrine seeking to delist their relatives from those worshipped at the shrine. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects suit against collective enshrinement at Yasukuni

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuken Sugawara (L), who heads the group of plaintiffs in a Yasukuni Shrine-related lawsuit, speaks to reporters in Osaka on Feb. 26 after a court ruling. The Osaka District Court turned down the lawsuit by nine relatives that called for the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo to stop enshrining 11 servicemen and civilian employees of the former imperial Japanese forces. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects suit against Yasukuni enshrinement

NAHA, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (front) of a suit against their relatives' enshrinement at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo makes an appeal in front of the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court in Okinawa Prefecture before the ruling on Sept. 6, 2011. The branch upheld the same day a lower court decision to reject the suit by five Okinawa Prefecture citizens, who asked the central government and the Shinto shrine to delist their 10 deceased relatives' enshrinement at the shrine and to pay a total of 500,000 yen in damages for mental pain they claim to have suffered from the enshrinement. (Kyodo)

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Court rejects suit against enshrinement of Koreans at Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean plaintiffs hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2011, after losing a suit earlier in the day at the Tokyo District Court, in which they called for the removal of their deceased relatives' names from a list of those enshrined collectively at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. (Kyodo)