Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

and fulfil my responsibility as the symbol of the state and of the ... renounced his divinity at the end of World War Two, as part of Japan's surrender. Today, the role is largely ceremonial ...

Set in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II ... Takashi Yamazaki: For me, Godzilla is a symbol of war and nuclear destruction, so I thought I must incorporate the suicide missions ...