Japan's shrine culture holds secrets that even frequent visitors rarely discover. Behind the serene torii gates and ...

Ise Shrine is rebuilt every 20 years to refresh sacred energy, preserve ancient craftsmanship, and honor Amaterasu while ...

Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing Sunday ...

Hofu Tenmangu, founded in the year 904, is the oldest of three large shrines in Japan dedicated to the scholar Sugawara no ...

A blue sheet covers a stone pillar on which graffiti was found at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war ...

TOKYO — An explosion Monday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. The Yasukuni shrine, which ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Seventy-five years after Japan's defeat in World War Two, Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead is a potent symbol of the controversy that persists over the conflict's legacy in East ...

The Japanese war shrine at the center of a long-running dispute between Tokyo and Beijing has decided to “soften” references to China in a war museum on its premises, a Japanese newspaper reported on ...

Dozens of worshipers took a deep breath and a brave plunge into icy waters at a Tokyo shrine Sunday, keeping afloat a New ...