Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Shimane Prefecture — located in the southwest of Japan’s main island near Hiroshima Prefecture — is an off-the-beaten-path ...

It has been 11,000 days since Oct. 25, 1994. That’s when Ned Rozell wrote his first story, a Halloween-themed piece on little ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking ...

Nestled in the heart of the Honshu mountains, Takayama’s nickname is “the little Kyoto of the Alps,” and for good reason: its ...

The gig has taken Ned Rozell on adventures across Alaska, from Mount Katmai to the Nogahabara Dunes and Kiska Island.

Osaka has been one of Japan’s thriving centers of culture and trade. Its strategic location between the calm harbors of Osaka ...

While Spain's headline trail now attracts up to half a million pilgrims a year, its twin is often uncrowded and offers a ...

CatNap’s makeshift shrine is presumably used to call upon a higher power—the Prototype. His posture appears to be offering himself while praying, asking for his course of action while the ...

Children in traditional dress celebrating Shichi-­go-san festival at a Shinto shrine. For what I experience ... a series of private dining rooms in a building surrounded by gardens and a stream ...

The first building to include a fully pendentive dome ... The oldest surviving piece of Islamic architecture, the Dome of the Rock is a shrine on the Temple Mount that dates back to 692.

the abiding memories are equally of the smaller encounters along the route – buying handmade wooden objects from a local trader and witnessing a wedding ceremony at a Shinto shrine. Perhaps the ...