The Japanese government originally planned to send the lantern in the 1920s ... Iemitsu’s funeral ceremonies at his family’s shrine in what today is Ueno Park in Tokyo. Much of the published ...

One of Japan’s most colourful festivals, the Sanja Matsuri is a rowdy mix of religious ritual and wild street party ...

The Kasuga-style lantern near the dry river resembles the Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara, a laid-back, culture-rich Japanese city to avoid Tokyo crowds. The Yama-style lantern on the garden's island ...

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 ...

the autumn festival of Karatsu Jinja Shinto shrine in this southwest Japan city. With a signal of fireworks, the floats, including a red lion, samurai helmet and sea bream, weighing 2 to 4 metric ...

Priests taking care of a Japanese shrine made famous through its inclusion in Ghost of Tsushima have banned all tourists from their site. Watazumi Shrine is found on Tsushima Island. Most famous ...

Japan's defense minister on Friday visited a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression to pray for the war dead just days before the nation marks the ...

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 ...