The Supreme Court failed to address the core constitutional issue of the separation of church and state in its ruling on an ...

There are about 40,000 Shinto shrines that are called “Hachimansha” or “Hachimangu” in Japan. These are headed by Usa Jingu ...

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Bridget Jones, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

On the first day of my first trip to Japan, I hit my head on a doorway walking towards a talking toilet. This particular ...

Another Japanese tourist hotspot, Kyoto has become one of the world's most desirable travel destinations thanks to its large ...

A group of 27 South Koreans fought to have their relatives’ names removed from the highly controversial shrine in Tokyo.

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the ... shinji" porridge ritual at Suwa Taisha's Shimosha Harumiya shrine in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, Jan.