Millions of Japanese people will return to their home towns to be with their families, visit neighborhood shrines on Tuesday night and Wednesday ... who wish to spend their otoshidama (monetary gifts ...

According to the shrine, after Edison put an incandescent ... The material came from the blades of a hand fan, which was a souvenir brought from Japan. When Edison sought bamboo from around ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...