To pray for good fortune in the New Year, people in Japan routinely flock to temples and shrines in the first few days of January. Tokyo's Meiji Shrine enshrines Emperor Meiji, who ruled from ...

Meiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine and located in a forested area in the heart of Tokyo. Related World's oldest-living person dies in Japan at 116 New Year's Eve celebrations ring in 2025 around the ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

"Every year around New Year's Day and the end of the year, there is big news about airplane accidents which is a bit too overwhelming for children, so I hope that this year will be as peaceful as ...

Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...

The number of suicides among school children in Japan reached a record high in 2024, marking the highest figure since ...

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The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

About 3,500 people gathered at Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Friday to see sumo yokozuna grand champion Hoshoryu perform his ...