Hitachi Rail and Tobu Railway's jointly developed Series N100 SPACIA X has been awarded the 2025 Red Dot Award for Product ...

Filipino Japanophiles share their Tokyo top threes—from kamatoro that melts like oceanic butter to Yoko Ono’s art that cuts ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have questioned the legitimacy of such a move in light of the Japanese Constitution ...

Japan is filled with mountain shrines, some hard to get to, some hard to traverse, and some, mysterious and beautiful. Togakushi Shrine in Nagano may be rather easy to access, but it's all about ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by Japan's neighbors as a symbol of its past ...

In November, after three months of interviews, I lost out on a job and decided it was time for a travel break. I set out on a 3 ½-week trip to Japan. The timing worked out — the favorable ...

A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

Toshogu Shrine Stopping to hear the story behind the Three Wise Monkeys of Tōshōgū Shrine in Nikko was high on my list, but I was surprised by how much there is to see at the temple itself.

Nikko Toshogu Shrine is the most famous of the bunch and enshrines the spirit of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate which marked the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1868).

Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine’s name was found to be defaced with the word “toilet” spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted ...

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868). The “Shrines and Temples of Nikko,” registered as a World ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said.