Couples, meanwhile, visit Izumo as a romantic getaway. For all travelers, Izumo offers limitless things to see and do. Japan’s Shinto deities gather at Izumo Taisha during the tenth lunar month (which ...

In the 19th century, writer Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) helped introduce Japan to the wider world. Peter Barakan visits Izumo to learn about the natural and unseen realms that Hearn treasured.

It’s befitting an area that’s known as “Land of the Gods,” the setting of many Shinto myths and home to the Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine ... century writer and Japan transplant Lafcadio ...

Shimane Prefecture draws visitors to Izumo Taisha, a shrine where Shinto deities ... Umi Shrine, founded at the end of Japan’s Warring States period, enshrines 17 deities, including Kotosakano ...

The Defense Ministry has concluded that a viral video of Japan’s largest destroyer appears ... of the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Izumo anchored at Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa ...

That gorgeous color! Upon seeing Kasuga Taisha shrine for the first time, what jumps out, I believe, is that trademark brilliant vermilion: the cloisters, railings, pillars, gates--all dashing ...