A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months ...

Is the Japan tourism bubble at risk of bursting? - SPECIAL REPORT: The number of people visiting Japan hit record levels in ...

Ken Johnson has been on a decade-long journey to find acceptance since his boy Torii Johnson's death during the Lindt cafe ...

His father, Ken, was travelling around Japan and came across a beautiful island with a torii gate, used by the Japanese to symbolically mark the transition of the mundane to the sacred. “I had the ...

Japan. A holy Shinto site, the shrine, and Torii gate appear as if they are floating in the sea during high tide. For a serene escape in the Shikoku region, visitors can visit the historic ...

Eleven of them measured at least 4 on the Japanese scale. The quake that hit on June 19, 2022, had an intensity of lower 6. Stone torii gates at two shrines in Suzu collapsed in the quake.

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½ ... the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...