At the Gou Jinja Shinto Shrine, fans of Japanese figures skaters are praying for their victory at the ... Wake no Kiyomaro (733-799), a member of a noble family, is said to be enshrined here as a ...

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

While Mie may not have the name recognition abroad of its famous neighbors, Osaka and Kyoto, the prefecture boasts plenty of ...

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 ...

Are you one of 40 million travelers expected to visit Japan soon, but want a place less touristy than Tokyo and Kyoto?

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

South Korean men who had died while serving in the Imperial Japanese Army were enshrined in the Shinto shrine in Tokyo along ... The feelings of the family members of the war dead toward the ...

KYOTO--Cultural treasures usually off-limits to the public are unveiled at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and other facilities ... the former residence of the Reizei family.

Two female priests have been appointed at a shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the first time in its history.

In their lawsuit, his bereaved family claimed that their right to self-determination had been violated because his enshrinement was the result of the government providing the Shinto shrine with a ...

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