We all know that Tokyo is a city like no other, where neon-lit skyscrapers stand side by side with ancient shrines, and every ...

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 ...

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Meiji-jingū is a Shinto place of worship ... was discovered in two places on the stone wall of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. In June and August, the pillars of this shrine's gate were marked ...

President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored ...

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.

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

Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark ...

Tokyo comfortably lives up to its billing ... Walking through Omotesando in the opposite direction to Meiji Jingu Shrine, you’ll also find the Nezu Museum, which as well as having an incredible ...

Mongolian sumo grand champion Hakuho and his bride Sayoko Wada tied the knot on Sunday (February 21) in a ceremony held at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Courtesy of Reuters Home Browse Series Live Q ...