During other seasons, Japanese flock to Buddhist Bon dances and Shinto-related festivals involving “mikoshi,” or portable shrines. “In Japan, faith is not considered an important element of ...

In Japan, the word for sourness is suppai. Since ancient times, people in Japan have preserved foods through fermentation.

There are religions that put their believers' faith to the test with harsh trials. On a mountain in Japan, that test is not ...

Yushima Tenmangu shrine in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, known as the "god of studies." Before the entrance exam ... are written on the ema. Japanese original Easy Japanese ...

Police believe he has since left Japan Police in Japan are searching ... The red graffiti on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine was discovered early on Saturday.

A Chinese national living in Japan was arrested over his suspected ... in English on a stone pillar near the entrance to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in May. His two alleged co ...

A Tokyo shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism reported on Monday a second case of graffiti in three months. The Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo honours 2.5 million mostly Japanese killed in ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...