Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, has been reconstructed every two decades for 1,300 years. But why?

Off the coast of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, beneath rolling blue waves and coral gardens, rests something that shouldn’t really ...

The underwater monument near Yonaguni Island has puzzled divers and researchers since its discovery in 1986. Submerged beneath the waves off Japan’s southwestern coast, the vast stone structure ...

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years.

While Japan’s overtourism issues may be causing headaches for local residents, there’s one group that seems to be benefiting from the influx of people – deer. Specifically, the deer who live in Nara, ...

For the first time, archaeologists have digitally and physically reconstructed fishing nets from more than 6,000 years ago, ...