Glance around the grounds and listen to discover that not only devout followers and tourists congregate at shrines and temples in central Tokyo. Shrines, temples and historic parks have a richer ...

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 ...

The trees, also known as sakura, mark the onset of spring in the Asian country, with the beautiful pink and white flowers adorning the streets of many of its major ... at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine ...

KYOTO—A graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts has been selected to play the heroine of this year’s Aoi Festival, one of the three major festivals of Kyoto, held on May 15 annually.