Japan is filled with mountain shrines, some hard to get to, some hard to traverse, and some, mysterious and beautiful. Togakushi Shrine in Nagano may be rather easy to access, but it's all about ...

The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) issued the criticism in a commentary dated Saturday, after Ishiba sent an offering last week to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead ...

SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for making a ritual offering to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, saying that it again ...

Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha is the head shrine of the many Sengan shrines (also sometimes called Asama shrines) that can be found across Japan, and their primary object ... and about 30 minutes by ...

Despite packing the current squad with Europe-born players recruited from the country's diaspora, Shin's side was outclassed by a Japanese team that sits 115 spots above the Southeast Asian nation ...

The case follows two incidents this year of graffiti scrawled on a pillar at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine that is affiliated with Japan's wartime past. Police obtained arrest warrants for three Chinese ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long angered neighbouring countries, a spokesman for the site said.

TOKYO, - Japan marked the anniversary on Thursday of its defeat in World War Two with visits by at least three cabinet ministers to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that other Asian nations see ...

This April, Umio Otsuka, a retired vice admiral in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force or navy, became Yasukuni Shrine’s chief priest. He is only the second ex-officer to hold the position ...

Exclusive: The annual film festival will return to New York this summer for another celebration of Japanese cinema. “We couldn’t be more amazed by this year’s festival,” Peter Tatara ...