Tokyo’s annual Tori-no-ichi festival attracted large crowds at Ootori Shrine on Monday, with visitors buying traditional ...

The leaves of maple trees have begun turning red and yellow at Momijidani Park on the island of Miyajima here, known as the ...

A Month in Japan, a lifetime of LessonsStory and Photography by Noah AllenAppeared in Cityview Magazine, Vol. 41, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2025)From bullet trains to temple bells, one East Tennessean discover ...

When commenting on Japanese officials' ritual offerings to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine and the visits made by some members of the Japanese Diet to the Shrine, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy ...

The new leader of Japan’s governing party, Sanae Takaichi, has decided not to visit a controversial World War II shrine in Tokyo, as uncertainty remains over whether she will be appointed prime ...

This photo taken on Oct. 17, 2025 at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering, left, sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its autumn festival. (Kyodo) ...

Japan's likely new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is reportedly considering skipping a visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine to avoid diplomatic fallout with China and South Korea. Her past ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from ...

TOKYO - The leadership contest of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has brought the contentious issue of visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine into the spotlight, with diplomatic ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...

ISE, Japan -- ISE, Japan (AP) — Ise Jingu is Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, which every 20 years is completely knocked down and rebuilt in an expensive, time-consuming process that has endured ...

Members of the Shinto priesthood try to push down a sacred timber from a wheeled platform at the end of Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony held during the rebuild of ...