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

Fishermen pray to the Torii gates at the front of the shrine from ... To get the background to the story, I flew to Portland and visited the Japanese garden. At the time, officials there were ...

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

What a gorgeous red torii gate at the edge of the ocean cliff ... Suddenly, I heard a deep thud, like someone had pounded a huge Japanese drum, and with it, the earth under my feet and the ...

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 ...

Most visitors hit the "golden triangle" of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto on Honshu's east coast. Here's why the regions of Chugoku and Shikoku shouldn't be overlooked, and everything you should see during ...

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 ...