It’s 20 years since Japan’s most popular pilgrimage route was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list — and its spiritual ...

Much has been written, and many hands wrung, over the opaque, obtuse, and obfuscating etiquette of the Japanese ... torii gate and a shed-sized structure containing a small altar, with no surrounding ...

The Institute for Nature Study is a vast nature reserve located in Minato Ward that serves as an urban oasis amidst the ...

It’s 20 years since Japan’s most popular pilgrimage route was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list — and its spiritual ...

The spacious and lush grounds of this huge suburban shrine host several deities, including Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning, as well as a bamboo fores ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honours Japan’s war dead, including convicted Second World War war criminals, has been vandalised again. “It is deplorable that an act seeking to denigrate the ...

With its unique blend of traditional culture and dazzling modernity, Japan offers an incredible tapestry of experiences that ...

TOKYO — Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalized again overnight Monday. “It is deplorable that an act seeking ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the ... the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back to ...