Overtourism is spoiling the country’s traditional draws – but its Three Great Gardens offer an opportunity to escape the ...

Researchers say rare remnants of Japanese shrine has been hiding in plain sight in popular Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

At temples and shrines in Japan, visitors choose fortunes written on strips of paper. Bad fortune? Tie it to a branch to make ...

The Bowdoin Japanese garden was designed and constructed by Nathaniel Cormier ’95. He transformed the space behind 38 College Street into a karesansui-style Japanese garden for his honors project for ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

Beyond the castle lies Koko-en Garden. Relax as you stroll ... Mie Prefecture where many consider the soul of Japan. The complex's main Naiju Shrine is dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu.

An annual spring Shinto festival has started at a shrine near Lake Biwa in Japan's western prefecture of Shiga. The first in a series of rituals of the Sanno Festival was held on Sunday at the ...