Beauty, Spirituality, and the Passage of Time. Lee Jay Walker. Modern Tokyo Times. Japan has been shaped by the intertwined ...

The meeting will take place at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, the distinctive pyramid-shaped building that has ...

Local legend has it that instead of dying on a cross in Jerusalem, Jesus escaped to Japan and spent the rest of his life in ...

The concept of reincarnation has long fascinated humanity and many prominent male figures in the entertainment industry have ...

One of the things that draws tourists to Kyoto is its shrines and temples, which have been beautifully preserved for ...

Meiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine in Tokio surrounded by a broad woodland precinct. Its defining feature is the meeting of ...

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has issued an urgent call to leaders of the world’s diverse religious traditions to form a united front to develop a unified comprehensive framework of moral and ethical ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha turns a wooded mountain into a long sequence of vermilion torii. In southern Kyoto, the Shinto shrine ...

For much of Japanese history, Shinto was not considered a religion in the modern sense. It functioned as a system of rituals, ...

Shinto has no founder, no dogma, and no scripture; it is a religion of "doing"—passing through a torii gate, purifying one's ...

NAGOYA: THE Renjishi dance is close to Nagoya's heart. It is a version of the lion dance, with artistes performing while ...