TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ... men with just white loincloth around ...

In August, Chinese characters and some letters from the Latin alphabet were also written on the shrine with a black felt-tip pen, police said. Japan welcomed a record 17.78 million foreign ...

Visits to the shrine by senior Japanese political figures have drawn criticism from countries such as South Korea, which was under Tokyo’s colonial rule for 35 years, and China, which Japan invaded.

Two tourists have been accused of disrespecting Japanese culture after filming gymnastics moves at a sacred shrine in Hokkaido ... started constructing a large black screen on a stretch of ...

The shrine honours Japan's war dead but also convicted World War Two criminals A Chinese man accused of buying spray paint which was used to write the word "toilet" on a controversial Japanese ...

In China, which Japan invaded in 1931 and then occupied through the end of World War II, the Defense Ministry said it “strongly opposed” the latest visit to the shrine.