1 - 10 of 19 results for "sacred shrine"

  1. 1. opinion | 26 Apr 2013

    Yasukuni Shrine visits inflame China-Japan tensions

    FOREIGN AFFAIRS

    Newspaper section: News

    » The Yasukuni Shrine sits in a quiet neighbourhood in central Tokyo, but this week it became one of Asia's most controversial sites.

  2. 2. news | 17 May 2013

    Japan PM says shrine visits 'natural'

    By AFP

    » Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview Friday the right of Japan's leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.

  3. 3. tech | 16 Apr 2013

    Harlem Shake meme hits Japan bathhouse and shrine

    By AFP Relax News

    » Japanese exhibitionists took the Harlem Shake into a bathhouse and a centuries old shrine on Sunday as they brought the YouTube phenomenon to Tokyo.

  4. 4. news | 15 Apr 2013

    Harlem Shake meme hits Japan bathhouse and shrine

    By AFP

    » Japanese exhibitionists took the Harlem Shake into a bathhouse and a centuries old shrine on Sunday as they brought the YouTube phenomenon to Tokyo.

  5. 5. news | 22 Apr 2013

    S. Korea shelves Japan trip over shrine visits

    By AFP

    » South Korea on Monday shelved a proposed trip by Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se to Tokyo in protest at visits by Japanese cabinet ministers to a controversial war shrine.

  6. 6. news | 25 Apr 2013

    Tokyo's leafy Yasukuni shrine stirs raw emotions

    By AFP

    » For Japan's neighbours the leafy Yasukuni shrine is a brutal reminder of Tokyo's imperialist past and wartime aggression, but for many ordinary Japanese it is merely a place to worship ancestors who died fighting...

  7. 7. news | 25 Apr 2013

    S. Korea calls in Japan envoy over war shrine row

    By AFP

    » South Korea called in Japan's ambassador Thursday to lodge a strong protest in an escalating diplomatic row over visits by Japanese cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a controversial war shrine.

  8. 8. news | 21 Apr 2013

    Japanese ministers visit Tokyo war shrine

    By AFP

    » Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine Sunday while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dedicated equipment used in rituals in moves likely to anger China and South Korea.

  9. 9. learning | 12 Jan 2011

    Relocation plans opposed

    Easy English news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » The Rattanakosin Island landscape improvement committee and the local residents and worshippers have very different ideas on the beauty of a popular shrine.

  10. 10. learning | 09 Mar 2010

    Trees are simply amazing

    THE CHINGCHOK Hunter

    By David Canavan, Newspaper section: Learningpost

    » Many trees are sacred to Thais, and I can understand why. You may not give them a second thought, or you may admire their majesty with just a passing glance, but in reality, trees are extremely complex, diverse and very ...

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