With record visitor numbers in 2024 putting strain on Japan's tourist hotpots, here are four places to visit far away from ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

About 3,500 people gathered at Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Friday to see sumo yokozuna grand champion Hoshoryu perform his first ring-entering ceremony. He was promoted to the sport's highest rank ...

Otaru, a northern Japanese city in Hokkaido, has deployed security guards to address repeated instances of unruly behaviour ...

A series of pictogrammes created by the Japan Tourism Agency paints a picture of dos and don'ts to promote better manners among tourists after Japan's popularity with foreign visitors grew at record ...

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The bad manners of some tourists, including behaviors such as littering, drinking on the street, and cutting in line, was ...

CatNap’s makeshift shrine is presumably used to call upon a higher power—the Prototype. His posture appears to be offering himself while praying, asking for his course of action while the ...

Beth Muthoni’s pilgrimage to Thiririka Shrine on January 16, in search of tranquillity and communion with her Creator through prayer, ended tragically when she was raped and murdered. When Muthoni ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Northern Liberties has been a fixture every Christmas season for the past several decades. Church ...

Tales of the miraculous have always encircled the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre ...

The East-West Shrine Bowl revealed on Friday its initial list of NFL prospects who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2025 edition. The annual all-star event has produced improved NFL ...