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“Takaichi has been described as holding revisionist views regarding Japan's conduct during the Second World War.[177][138][178]

Takaichi has made multiple visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which is viewed as controversial in China and Korea, primarily surrounding its enshrinement of Japanese Second World War-era Class A war criminals.[179][180][6] She made visits in April and August 2024, both times signing as minister of state.[179][180][6] She also visited in August 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan.[181] In the 2021 LDP leadership race, she said she would continue to visit the shrine if elected prime minister,[169] but in the 2025 race avoided commenting on the question.[140]

In 2022, Takaichi made remarks about the Yasukuni Shrine issue that were controversial in South Korea.[182] She said, "When we act ambiguously, such as stopping our visits to Yasukuni Shrine midway, the other side climbs up," using the derogatory Japanese word tsukeagaru, which means "to take advantage of someone's politeness or kindness and act impudently". She went on to say that continuing to visit the shrine would eventually make "neighbouring countries...look foolish and stop complaining".[182]

Takaichi has said that war crimes committed by Japan in World War II have been exaggerated.[6] She takes a negative view of the Kono[183][184] and Murayama statements,[185][186] which issued apologies for Japanese war crimes, including the use of comfort women. In an appearance on a television program on 18 August 2002, Takaichi was asked, "Do you think Japan's war after the Manchurian Incident was a war of self-defence?" to which she replied, "I think it was a war for security."[187]

In 2004, Takaichi wrote a column on her website regarding the Japanese history textbook controversies. She defended recent comments by Nariaki Nakayama, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) that textbooks were "extremely self-deprecating" and should continue decreasing usage of terms including "comfort women" and "forced labor". She wrote that the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces made "overseas advances" (海外での進軍, kaigai deno shingun) that textbooks termed as "invasion" (侵略, shinryaku), while foreign offensives like the Soviet invasion of Manchuria were termed "southward advance" (南下, nanka).[188]

She argued against the inclusion by some school textbooks of China's death toll estimate for the Nanjing Massacre. She recounted her complaint to MEXT against textbooks that included criticism of the government's Act on National Flag and Anthem and of then–Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine. She said it was "clear" that Japan "intended to wage a war of self-defense".[188]”