Your Pawns will encourage you off the beaten track, giant enemies will pursue you where ... Okay, okay, so Minecraft is technically a sandbox game, but hey, that still counts as an open-world ...

Tucked halfway up a mountain, deep in Japan's Wakayama prefecture you will find what just might be Japan's most beautiful ...

A Japanese shrine famous to video game fans has announced a ban on visits by tourists, following an "unforgivable act of disrespect". In 2021, Ghost of Tsushima players helped the Tsushima ...

The Minecraft map was used in the opening page for Chapter 6 Spacial Figures of the Japanese junior high school textbook “Mirai e Hirogaru Math 1,” published by Keirinkan. The publishing house ...

The stray cats that are the stars of this mildly charming Japanese documentary aren’t squatters in a Shinto shrine for spiritual reasons. They’ve just found a convenient location – one with ...

Perhaps because the shrine’s previous attempts to ban foreign visitors met with negative reactions, the announcement makes specific mention that the no-tourists-allowed policy applies to Japanese ...

The controversy erupted after a promotional video showed players in the game destroying the interior of Itatehyozu Shrine, an actual shrine located in Himeji city.

Priests taking care of a Japanese shrine made famous through its inclusion in Ghost of Tsushima have banned all tourists from their site. Watazumi Shrine is found on Tsushima Island. Most famous ...

This is the kind of story that makes our blood boil. The Watazumi Shrine on Tsushima Island has been closed to all tourists following “a grave and unforgivable act of disrespect by foreigners”.

he Kumano Hongu Shrine Spring Festival, held every year from April 13 to 15, is one of the most important Shinto events in Wakayama Prefecture. It takes place at Kumano Hongu Shrine, one of the Three ...

Studio Ghibli is a renowned and award-winning Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. It was founded by animators and directors Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao and producer Suzuki ...