On the first day of my first trip to Japan, I hit my head on a doorway walking towards a talking toilet. This particular ...

enshrined at what one might call Japan’s shrine of all shrines. Ise Grand Shrine, in the city of Ise in Mie Prefecture and otherwise often referred to as Ise Jingu, is home to 125 shrines ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner must at least ...

IBUSUKI, Kagoshima -- The unique "Mendon" festival, featuring a parade of participants wearing bizarre masks who smear black ...

Surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, Japan’s Ise-Shima region is a place where ancient traditions, spirituality and the ...

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The Shirataki Daimyojin Shrine Association leads travelers ... was sourced for Japan’s imperial family. Nowadays, Ise-Shima seafood is found in high-end restaurants across Japan.

“I am not thinking about a grand coalition at the moment,” Ishiba told a New Year’s news conference here on Jan. 6 following his visit to Ise Jingu shrine ... Party of Japan, told reporters ...

Since the Edo period (between 1603 and 1868), pilgrims have come to this region to visit Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine. Ise Jingu is the ancient epicenter of Shinto spirituality. Made up of ...

The Ama divers of Japan, primarily in Toba and Shima, preserve an ancient tradition of free diving for shellfish and pearls, ...