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Yasukuni is a controversial Shinto shrine in Tokyo. It commemorates (by name) over two million Japanese people who died in wars from 1868 to 1954. Right-wing Japanese politicians visit the shrine to pay respects to the war dead, but this is seen by China and Korea as a provocative act as over a thousand Japanese war criminals are enshrined there.


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  • Tokyo Shokonsha

    Tōkyō Shōkonsha in 1873

  • King Rama VII and his suite visit to the Yasukuni Shrine

    King of Thailand, King Rama VII (Prajadhipok)'s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine (May 1931)

  • French Navy personnel visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in 1930s

    French Navy officers' visit to Yasukuni Shrine (May 1933)

  • German Navy personnel visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in 1930s

    German Navy officers' visit to Yasukuni Shrine (March 1937)

  • Yasukuni Mitama Night

    The Mitama Festival at Yasukuni Shrine

  • YasukuniJinja 23November

    Haiden with purple curtains in the Niinamesai

  • Yasukuni shrine honden

    Yasukuni Shrine's haiden

  • YasukuniJinsha-Entry01 1991

    Syagō Hyō

  • Yasukuni Shirine Nogakudo 03

    The nameboard of Nōgakudo

  • Shokonsaitei

    Shōkonsaitei

  • Yasukuni

    Japanese 17 sen (1943), 27 sen (1945) and 1 yen (1946) stamps which depict the Yasukuni Shrine's Torii and honden)

  • Yasukuni 75Th

    Japanese 7 sen stamp depicting Yasukuni Shrine's honden

  • Empire of Japan 50 sen banknote with Yasukuni Shrine

    Empire of Japan 50 sen banknote with Yasukuni Shrine

  • Hiroshige III, Big French circus on the grounds of Shokonsha shrine, 1871

    French circus on the grounds of Shokonsha shrine, 1871

  • 靖国刀（九段刀）刀身と拵え（外装）

    Yasukuni (Kudan) sword (inscription: Yasuhiro)

  • Yasuhiro

    The center of Yasukuni (Kudan) sword (inscription: Yasuhiro)

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