One place that has a long historical claim to have been the site of the events described in the myth is the Amano Iwato Shrine, in Miyazaki Prefecture in southeastern Kyūshū. We set out for the ...

Hirotaka Takeuchi, the only Japanese to conquer all of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000 meters high, and two others stretched a “shimenawa” sacred rope across the entrance to the Amano-Iwato ...