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Tokyo, Japan - November 20, 2024 Tokyo's Ueno Toshogu shrine is pictured during a lighting ceremony on Nov. 20, 2024. Lilo & Stitch (2025) teaser trailer 41 Quick One-Pan Meals For Easy ...

14, 2024. YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images An American tourist is accused of desecrating the entrance gate to a sacred Japanese shrine in a "heartless" act of vandalism. Steve Lee Hayes ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated ritual offerings on April 21 to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. He sent “masakaki” religious ...

TOKYO, Japan – An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan’s struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

In 1964, Madeleine Edison Sloane traveled to Japan and visited Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine located in Kyoto Prefecture near the city of Yawata. The purpose of her visit was not tourism but ...

Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested a 65-year-old American man on suspicion of property damage. Security footage at the Meiji Jingu Shrine led authorities to this tourist's hotel room to ...

Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill gallery in London will present ‘Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami’, a new exhibition opening on December 10 where the renowned artist reimagines ...

Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said ...

As one of the most sacred sites in Japan, Kirishima Jingu shrine is particularly revered, as it’s said to enshrine seven of these gods, including Ninigi-no-Mikoto, the grandson of Sun Goddess ...