Despite offering some of Japan’s most beautiful scenery ... This partially floods an expansive grove of white willow trees, creating a submerged forest of mysteriously beautiful scenery in which the ...

Conserving the forest enabled this traditional lion dance to survive. Tenjinzaki was one of the first places to be a focus of modern environmental conservation in Japan. The community has ...

Makino Mantaro, in the Japan Broadcasting Corp ... the end of the last glacial period, and the forest today is primarily unchanged from 8,000 years ago. That was the Jomon Period when ancient ...

as the shrine, seen by Japan's neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism, began a three-day spring festival. Ishiba, however, is not expected to visit the shrine during the festival ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion ... While the buildings are certainly worth visiting, the surrounding forest (considered part of the vast Yoyogi Park) is a sight to ...

Visits to the shrine by senior Japanese political figures have drawn criticism from countries such as South Korea, which was under Tokyo’s colonial rule for 35 years, and China, which Japan invaded.

The rest of the sacred mountain—Japan’s tallest peak—was hidden, but our guide encouraged us to be patient. Find a spot to ...