Here are 13 summer festivals happening across Japan in 2025 from fireworks and street dances to quiet lantern processions and ...

Read the prayer offered by Elder Gary E. Stevenson to dedicate the Antofagasta Chile Temple. He prayed that members would ...

Exploring the Spiritual Significance of the Hokkaido Shrine Festival. E very year, nestled in the lush greens of Maruyama ...

Unlike many shrines, Kashihara Jingu is bare of paint. That absence of colour as well as the massive wooden pillars and ...

The procession with the logs was part of long-term preparations for Shikinen Sengu, a tradition in which the main shrines, ...

My first trip to Sapporo last month made me fall in love with Japan even more. It's not only the delicious food and nice ...

Matsunoo Taisha is the guardian Shinto shrine to Kyoto's west. In April and May, the deities are carried through the ...

Located in the mountains of western Kagawa Prefecture, Kotohira has yet to suffer — or benefit — from Japan’s overtourism ...

The matter of interest and point in question is a video that shows an aerial view of the earth with a small white light speedily circling India This video which is supposedly released by Nasa and is b ...

On the rural islands of Nagasaki, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time ...

They are known as “omagari neko (bent-tail cats)” or “kagi neko (hook cats)” and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine. Their tails come in varieties ...