Mitsui Fudosan Co., the Meiji Jingu shrine, the Japan Sport Council and Itochu Corp. started work on the 349 billion yen ($2.3 billion) project in March last year. But in September, the ...

On Sunday, carvings resembling Chinese characters were discovered on another gate leading to the Meiji Jingu shrine. This week, the police also launched an investigation after finding a symbol ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

A 65-year-old US citizen has been detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of Tokyo's Meiji Jingu shrine, one of the city's most frequented tourist attractions.

About 3,500 people gathered at Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Friday to see sumo yokozuna grand champion Hoshoryu perform his first ring-entering ceremony. He was promoted to the sport's highest rank ...

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Otaru, a northern Japanese city in Hokkaido, has deployed security guards to address repeated instances of unruly behaviour ...

The bad manners of some tourists, including behaviors such as littering, drinking on the street, and cutting in line, was ...

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