Momijidani Park is one of the most famous spots in Japan for autumn foliage. Located off the coast of Hiroshima on the small ...

Cash (Japanese Yen) is necessary for markets and small shops ... reason people visit Miyajima is to visit the famous Floating ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism.

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 ...

Police have arrested a 65-year-old American man for allegedly defacing Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo earlier this week by using his fingernails to scratch letters in a torii gate there. Steve Hayes, who ...

Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine’s name was found to be defaced with the word “toilet” spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted ...

This April 21, 2020 file photo shows Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for "death" was found ...

drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past. The shrine includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied ...

The war criminals included wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Visits by Japanese leaders to the controversial shrine trigger a backlash from China and South Korea. Former Prime Minister Fumio ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

A woman wearing a kimono walks through numerous torii gates in Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine, Kyoto. Shrine stroll - Japan Today Get your ticket to GaijinPot Expo 2024 ...

Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine's name was found to be defaced with the word "toilet" spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted in July ...