Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

It's not clear if he remains in custody or has been released. Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo, and popular tourist destination, that "commemorate(s) the virtue of Emperor Meiji and ...

The new visitors have found a number of similarities between the Shinto shrine and “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” a wildly popular manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge.

Built in 1920, the shrine honours the spirits of Emperor Meiji, the first ruler of Imperial Japan, and his wife Empress Shoken. In the Shinto religion, the gate represents a boundary between the ...

He sent the ceremonial implement for Shinto rituals under the name of “Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.” Yasukuni Shrine memorializes people who gave their lives for the country, including 14 ...

The antics of tourists in places of religious worship never cease to amaze. In Japan, there's much talk about an American ...

The modern system of ranked Shinto shrines was an organizational aspect of the establishment of Japanese State Shinto. This system classified Shinto shrines as either official government shrines or ...

The Meiji shrine is a Shinto shrine that “was established in 1920, to commemorate the virtue of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken who took the initiative to make a foundation of modernized Japan ...

9.12 x 13 in. (23.2 x 33 cm.) ...