January 10, 1991 (Gengwu the winter months 25), Japan Sendai High Court verdict government cabinet members, such as visits to the Yasukuni Shrine violate the Constitution.

1985 years after the first official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the Japanese around a lot of litigation on the issue of the Yasukuni Shrine. January 10, 1991 the Sendai High Court hearing residents of Iwate Prefecture the "Shrine litigation". Litigation, Iwate Prefecture Council made in 1979 to achieve the Emperor, Prime Minister resolution and County Speaker of the official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, the county governor, and 35 people in 1981 in public funds to pay visits to the Yasukuni Shrine incense money violates the constitution about separation of church and state principles and requirements of incense money recovered a total of more than 20,000 yen. After hearings, the Sendai High Court judgment, "the official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in purpose with religious significance, should be said to evoke concerned about the behavior of a particular religion, belongs to the Constitution prohibits religious behavior. The "incense money to pay detrimental to the pursuit of the principle of secularism Iwate Prefecture authorities neutrality." Iwate Prefecture authorities refused to accept the above judgment, to make a special appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan. September 25, 1991, the Supreme Court today dismissed the Iwate Prefectural Assembly, the special appeal of the district authorities, the judgment of the government cabinet members official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in violation of the Constitution.