they seem to enjoy telling lies with their friends and family as a kind of hobby,' the event's organiser says On a busy afternoon in Tokyo's Asakusa district, a tour guide leads a small group to a ...

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district.

Crowds packed into the streets of Tokyo's Asakusa district from May ... of three mikoshi portable shrines belonging to the Asakusa Shrine. The procession returned this year for the first time ...

TOKYO: Female rickshaw pullers are drawing attention in Tokyo’s Asakusa area, a site to which tourists flock from all over the world. Because it requires so much physical power and endurance ...

with a robot at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation The president also paid a visit to the Meiji Shrine, which which honors a former Japanese emperor In a news conference with ...