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.

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 ...

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 ...