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.

Omamori, those little talismans from Japanese shrines and temples, are staples of good luck and protection ... absorb the mystical energy of the universe to be later transformed into a one-of-a-kind, ...

A Chinese national living in Japan was arrested over his suspected ... saying he conspired with the two others to vandalize the shrine with red spray paint around 10 p.m. on May 31.

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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 ...