Visiting a Shinto shrine requires more than quiet admiration—it calls for an understanding of its rituals, from purifying hands to offering prayers. Observing these customs offers a glimpse into Japan ...

A man has been arrested after threatening to set fire to one of Japan’s oldest Shinto shrines, following backlash over an ...

Shima region of Japan (located in the Shima Peninsula, with its strong maritime tradition) is a seafood lover’s heaven. West of futuristic Tokyo and south-east of historic Kyoto, Ise-Shima National ...

Torii gates are iconic structures that mark the boundary between the everyday and the sacred at Shinto shrines across Japan. Defacing sites or breaking the rules at important international sites ...

A Shinto shrine that's believed to have influenced a similar location in Ghost of Tsushima has reportedly banned tourists after an undisclosed incident involving foreigners. Named Watazumi Shrine ...

TOKYO -- Noboru Shimura, 80, sat at a shaded table on the vast grounds of the Shinto shrine honoring Japan's war dead, waiting for the others in his World War II regiment to straggle in.

Hayes, a U.S. citizen, had “carved alphabet letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine” in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo on Tuesday, police said. It's not clear what state Hayes is from.