Thousands of company and government employees visited Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo on Monday to pray for a prosperous year. Kanda Myojin, known as the shrine of commerce and industry, draws workers on ...

Workers prepare to remove a graffiti on Yasukuni Shrine's stone pillar, covered under a blue sheet in Tokyo on June 1, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are searching for the ...

Thousands descended upon Tokyo's iconic Meiji Shrine on Thursday (January 1) morning to offer prayers for the new year in ...

This photo shows a "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, and another ritual offering by one of his cabinet members on the occasion of an annual Shinto spring ...

Worshippers flocked to a major Shinto shrine in central Tokyo in the waning hours of New Year's Eve to pray for good luck.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly defacing a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo, according to local police. Steve Lee Hayes has reportedly admitted to writing “his ...

Japanese police are searching for suspects who spray-painted the word "toilet" on a Tokyo shrine commemorating the country's war dead. The graffiti, discovered on a stone pillar at Yasukuni Shrine, is ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the soul and pray for good ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Steven Lee Hayes, 65, is accused of carving his family's name into the gate of a famed Tokyo shrine, say police BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested in Japan for ...