Shrine parishioners throw icy cold water on themselves during the annual cold-endurance festival at Kanda Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo, on Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP ...

Osaka has been one of Japan’s thriving centers of culture and trade. Its strategic location between the calm harbors of Osaka ...

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

Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at the shrine on May 4 and 5 every year ... the horses can jump over the 1.5-to-2-meter-tall mud wall placed at the top of the slope.

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.

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the ... ritual took place at Suwa Taisha's Shimosha Harumiya shrine in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, where this year's prediction ...