A Japanese shrine famous to video game fans has announced a ban on visits by tourists, following an "unforgivable act of ...

On top of that, tourists from other parts of the world have also been busted for issues such as having public sex in sacred ...

Watazumi Shrine on Tsushima has banned all visiting tourists. A grave and unforgivable act involving tourists occurred a few ...

With so many paranormal movies around them, humans have also somehow managed to attach a myriad of folklore to dolls., People ...

The city, known as the cultural capital of Japan, is home to numerous Buddhist temples, the Imperial Palace, Shinto shrines, traditional wooden houses and meticulously kept gardens – all make ...

With spring being the peak season for Japanese travel and online searches for ‘Fushimi Inari Shrine’ up 140%, interest in sacred sites is soaring. However, recent incidents, from damage at ...

HIMEJI, Hyogo Prefecture--The autumn festival of Matsubara Hachimanjinja shrine here, known as the “Nada no Kenka Matsuri” (Fighting festival of Nada), reached its thrilling climax on Oct. 15.

Our destination? A hidden shrine tucked deep in the woods where time feels as though it has stood still for centuries. According to Japanese legend, the sun goddess Amaterasu hid in a cave after ...

Messrs, Yamanaka Co. of Osaka, Japan, have placed in the Fifth Avenue Galleries, 366 Fifth Avenue, a collection of antique earvings in wood and metal, mostly Buddhistic in origin, made by a Mr ...

Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalised again overnight Monday. It is deplorable that an act seeking to denigrate the ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed “floating” torii gate of Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site under repair, was revealed for the first time in about three and a half years.