One gameplay video shows a character firing a bow towards priests and destroying a traditional drum and an altar. Read more ...

TOKYO, March 19 — A Japanese lawmaker today slammed the latest video game in the hit "Assassin's Creed" series, complaining ...

A Japanese lawmaker today slammed the latest video game in the hit "Assassin's Creed" series, complaining that a samurai ...

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan.

City leaders in Westerville want to resurrect a piece of history that takes us back 60 years. “Just that opportunity that we can tell our story,” said Christa Dickey, community affairs ...

Okayama Prefecture is said to be the birthplace of Momotaro, the protagonist of Japan’s most famous folktale. Several local ...

This shrine in Kumamoto Pref. was razed in the 2016 earthquake. The seven-year restoration fused traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology. It had a magnitude of 7.3 and a reading of 7 ...

A group calling itself “Shinto LGBTQ plus Liaison Council” posted a statement to this effect on Twitter on Nov. 14. A shrine worker in the Kansai region who identifies as non-binary played a ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows faces backlash in Japan over historical inaccuracies and the depiction of a Shinto shrine’s ...

17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering of "masakaki" evergreen twigs. He sent the ceremonial implement for Shinto rituals under the name of “Prime ...