According to Radio France Internationale, former LDP Secretary-General Sanae Takaichi offered an offering called "Shinsakaki" to Yasukuni Shrine on October 17, 2026. Asked by the media whether she would personally visit the shrine to pay her respects, Takaichi gave no clear response, saying only that it was inconvenient to disclose her itinerary.
A Chinese man stood in front of the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan holding a megaphone and a banner, shouting at the surrounding Japanese that Chinese people are not afraid of Japanese and saying they have no courage.
After news broke that Pokémon would hold an event at Yasukuni Shrine, CCTV.com published an article on January 30 titled 'Stepping on the historical red line three times! Pokémon is a repeat offender in "worshipping ghosts",' claiming that in 2016, it had set a game challenge location inside Yasukuni Shrine.
On June 1, 2024, internet celebrity Tietou, who was banned from all platforms for exposing his solicitation of prostitutes, went to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. He urinated on a stone pillar and spray-painted the English word 'toilet' in red paint, subsequently releasing the video online and attracting attention.
On August 30, 2021, the Chinese Academy of History published a lengthy article publicly naming Gao Xiaosom, systematically cataloging his remarks on Chiang Kai-shek, the Xi'an Incident, the Yasukuni Shrine, and other topics, and classifying them as "historical nihilism"; around the same time, programs such as Xiaosom's Talk could not be searched normally on some platforms.