would represent Japan at the memorial ceremony. Some Japanese media reported in 2022 that she visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo after her election as a lawmaker that year. Following the ...

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial honors the 227 Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes and sent to internment camps for three years following the bombing of ...

Perhaps because the shrine’s previous attempts to ban foreign visitors met with negative reactions, the announcement makes specific mention that the no-tourists-allowed policy applies to Japanese ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed.

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 Japanese shrine famous to video game fans has announced a ban on visits by tourists, following an "unforgivable act of disrespect". In 2021, Ghost of Tsushima players helped the Tsushima ...

Rising atop Mount Samat in Pilar, Bataan, the Dambana ng Kagitingan (Shrine of Valor) stands as a solemn tribute to the ...