Takaichi, who routinely visited the Shinto shrine before becoming prime minister, has refrained from doing so since taking ...

A group of Japanese lawmakers visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday for its autumn festival. The shrine honors Japan's ...

ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...

Japan PM Takaichi sends offering to Yasukuni shrine amid tensions with China and South Korea Read more at straitstimes.com.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blue sheet covers a stone pillar on which graffiti was found at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (Kyodo News via ...

During the festival, three Takaichi cabinet ministers visited the shrine. Growth strategy minister Minoru Kiuchi paid a visit ...

Members of the Shinto priesthood try to push down a sacred timber from a wheeled platform at the end of Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild the shrine's main ...

You visit a shrine at New Year's. You visit your family grave. Yet, when asked, 'Do you have a religion?', you answer, 'Not ...

A new exhibition at Toshogu Shrine (Toshogu) in Nikko gives the site a current cultural programme from 23 to 28 October 2026.

China strongly condemned what it called Japan’s “negative moves” concerning the Yasukuni Shrine, saying the actions were a ...

TOKYO—A Tokyo landmark dedicated to Japan's war dead that has become a perpetual sore in Japan's relations with its neighbors is again about to take center stage. China and South Korea have long ...

A new 5-foot-tall wooden Shinto shrine has been installed in Point Defiance Park’s Japanese Garden in Tacoma.