Alternate names kept coming up as I tried to find my way to the registered UNESCO site documented as the Itsukushima Shinto shrine ... World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various ...

The spouses of G7 leaders visited the Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site. Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's wife Yuko, US First Lady Jill Biden, and British Prime Minister's wife ...

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...

Japan is a destination people love for its ... For a particularly unique experience, visitors can even step inside the statue ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for “death” was found graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, after ...

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio wants ... home of the World Heritage Site Itsukushima Shrine, for a commemorative photo. The leaders will then have a working dinner together.

The Larsens had been to Japan several times. But they wanted to see some of the remote destinations on the National Geographic Resolution schedule, including the famous Itsukushima Shrine ...

TOKYO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view ...