During other seasons, Japanese flock to Buddhist Bon dances and Shinto-related festivals involving “mikoshi,” or portable shrines. “In Japan, faith is not considered an important element of ...

A Tokyo shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism reported on ... a Chinese man allegedly conspired with two others to spray-paint the word "toilet" in red on a pillar at the shrine.

drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past. The shrine includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied ...

In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s busiest sites couldn’t be simpler ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...