{"id":"7430a1c6-3592-41fd-b573-049eccf0d2bd","url":"https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/others/20261018/why-japans-yasukuni-shrine-remains-flashpoint-for-korea-china","domain":"koreatimes.co.kr","outlet":{"name":"The Korea Times","country":"KR","cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"Why Japan's Yasukuni Shrine remains flashpoint for Korea, China","plainHeadline":"Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine remains a flashpoint with Korea and China","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi offered at Yasukuni Shrine on the shrine's autumn festival day.","Korea and China immediately protested the offering, calling it provocative.","MOFA urged Japan to face history squarely and show remorse through action.","The shrine venerates about 2.46 million people from Meiji Restoration to WWII.","Enshrinement of Koreans and Class A war criminals at Yasukuni remains contentious."],"topics":["Politics"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-18T06:42:04.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-18T06:47:33.830Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/0d91d493-2a1d-4ab9-8e44-a34ed5d00b1a","storyId":"0d91d493-2a1d-4ab9-8e44-a34ed5d00b1a","image":"https://newsimg.koreatimes.co.kr/2026/10/18/63a85f4b-f3a7-4347-b318-2fb77129390b.jpeg","author":null,"dek":"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made an offering at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Saturday, bringing to the fore a decades-old sore point with neighboring Korea and China, both of which suffered heavily from Japanese imperial aggression in the first half of the 20th century."}