{"id":88849,"date":"2026-04-22T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/japanese-police-arrest-a-south-korean-for-allegedly-disrupting-yasukuni-shrine-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:52:13","slug":"japanese-police-arrest-a-south-korean-for-allegedly-disrupting-yasukuni-shrine-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/japanese-police-arrest-a-south-korean-for-allegedly-disrupting-yasukuni-shrine-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese police arrest a South Korean for allegedly disrupting Yasukuni Shrine festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">Tokyo &#8212; <\/span>A South Korean man holding banners with political messages was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly disrupting the annual Spring Festival in Tokyo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-wwii-anniversary-surrender-yasukuni-emperor-89c7c3685e9a29e719356e31c5cc66e5\">Yasukuni Shrine<\/a>Japanese police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shrine honors Japan&#8217;s 2.5 million war dead, including convicted war criminals. Victims of Japanese aggression before and during World War II, particularly in China and Korea, view a visit to the shrine as a lack of repentance regarding Japan&#8217;s wartime past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 64-year-old suspect was carrying a banner with messages including one urging &#8220;war criminals&#8221; to stop praying at Yasukuni and another making territorial claims on the island disputed between Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kyodo news agency said the man was standing at the gate of the main temple and in front of vehicles carrying the emperor&#8217;s messengers. The temple said on its website that the messengers were to distribute offerings on behalf of the emperor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prime Minister on Tuesday&#8230; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-election-takaichi-1df9580c5a018b28965cbed99565b4b7\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>who regularly prays at the temple, sent a religious ornament to Japan for the second time as leader of Japan, drawing criticism from China and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A group of over 100 right-wing MPs, including a cabinet minister, offered prayers at the temple on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Associated Press video journalist Mayuko Ono contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo &#8212; A South Korean man holding banners with political messages was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly disrupting the annual Spring Festival in Tokyo Yasukuni ShrineJapanese police said. The shrine honors Japan&#8217;s 2.5 million war dead, including convicted war criminals. Victims of Japanese aggression before and during World War II, particularly in China and Korea,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1124,1123,5102,5123,4873,5477,157,24433,1107,24432],"class_list":{"0":"post-88849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-allegedly","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-disrupting","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-japanese","13":"tag-korean","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-shrine","16":"tag-south","17":"tag-yasukuni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88878,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88849\/revisions\/88878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}