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

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto), this one is pretty special. Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari ...

“Because of the Goshuin, shrines have become closer to ... It’s closely linked to the country’s imperial family: Around 1870, Japan made Shinto the state religion and used imperial worship ...

Meiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine and located in a forested area ... gate and possibly at another location after traveling with his family on a sightseeing trip to Japan.

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. It's for good reason: Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist ...

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 ...

Hayes said he was writing the name of a family member ... and sacred worlds in the Shinto religion – as a prank, according to the police. Staff at the Meiji Jingu shrine, constructed in 1920 ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.

In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s busiest sites couldn’t be simpler ...