I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Citizens from the Grand Duchy who moved to Japan share their experience on the archipelago as the Osaka World Expo begins ...

No trip to Japan is complete without a visit to a ... meant to purify themselves before continuing on to the main shrine. If you wish to partake, the steps are easy. Scoop water from the basin ...

But I’ll leave those questions to the news outlets: I’m a travel editor with Live Japan. I was awed by the experience ... But I found myself wishing for more time to speak with the people around me, ...

China has lodged a protest after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and dozens of lawmakers visited it ...

SEOUL, April 22 (UPI) --South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to a shrine seen by many as an unapologetic ...

This photo taken on April 21, 2025, at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its spring festival.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday, as the shrine, seen by Japan's neighbors as a symbol of its past militarism, began a three-day spring ...

China has lodged solemn representations with Japan, the embassy said on Tuesday. The Yasukuni Shrine is a spiritual symbol and tool of Japanese militarism's war of aggression, enshrining 14 Class ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival on Monday. Ishiba has no plans to visit the ...

A cross-party group of around 70 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday attended the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, regarded as a symbol of the country's past militarism by its Asian neighbors.