Developers have yet to submit a document required to cut down trees in Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Gaien district for a much-criticized redevelopment project. Mitsui Fudosan Co., the Meiji Jingu shrine ...

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.

A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of damaging the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's most visited shrines, Meiji Jingu. Officers arrested the American tourist ...