Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Emperor Meiji and commemorates anyone who had died in service of the Empire of Japan. The Honden shrine commemorates anyone who died on behalf of the empire, including not only soldiers, relief workers, factory workers, and other citizens, but also those not of Japanese ethnicity such as Taiwanese and Koreans who served Japan.
The Yasukuni Shrine also has many memorials and one such memorial enshrines the Indian Judge Radha Binod Pal. Justice Radha Binod Pal, an Indian judge from Bengal who was the lone dissenting voice in the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal that found Japan’s wartime military leaders guilty of war crimes. Justice Pal questioned the validity of a trial where war victors judged and sentenced the defeated. A monument is dedicated to his memory at the Yasukuni shrine.
Radha Binod Pal believed that the exclusion of Western colonialism and the use of the atom bomb by the United States from the list of crimes, and judges from the vanquished nations on the bench, signified the “failure of the Tribunal to provide anything other than the opportunity for the victors to retaliate.”
The engraved words from Radha Binod Pal. “When time shall have softened passion and prejudice, when Reason shall have stripped the mask from misrepresentation, then Justice, holding evenly her scales, will require much of past censure and praise to change places”
If you visit this place do also see the various exhibits in the Yushukan Museum in the Shrine complex.The Yūshūkan is a Japanese military and war museum located within Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
A military plane exhibit at the Yushukan Museum. This is the free access part of the museum at the Yushukan. The cafeteria and the shop in that museum can be accessed without any admission fee. We highly recommend to pay the admission fee and see the extensive things from World War Two on display at the museum.
With the political discourse around the shrine always in news, with whatever views you have on the matter, this is a highly recommended spot if you want to discover various Indian footprints in Japan.
Location is as per the Google Map below

Interestingly the Indian Embassy in Japan, Tokyo is just a minute walk from the Yasukuni Shrine.


Incredible India tourism posters at the Indian Embassy of Tokyo.