A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but none of ...

New Otani Hotel Tokyo's vast garden is home to rock gardens, tree fossils, an active koi pond, and a vast waterfall that spans much of the park. When searching for urban hotels, “includes garden ...

Tokyo’s Kameido Tenjin Shrine is famous for its wisteria flowers, and with good reason – the shrine has over 50 wisteria trees, which usually reach their flowering peak between mid-April and ...

The agency reported spotting six cherry blossom buds on the verge of blooming at Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo's official sakura sample tree – an iconic marker signalling the start of the season.

The sample cherry tree monitored in Tokyo by the Japan Meteorological Agency came into full bloom Sunday, the agency said. The full bloom of the Somei-Yoshino tree at Yasukuni Shrine in the ...

After observing the marker trees on the grounds of Yasukuni Jinja shrine in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, weather station staff confirmed that at least 80% of the blossoms were flowering, which is the ...

Tourists and Japanese locals marvelled at Tokyo's cherry trees on Monday at the peak of the annual blossom season that traditionally represents fresh starts but also life's fleeting impermanence.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) confirmed the first blooming of a cherry blossom on Monday, when the specimen tree of the Somei Yoshino at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine had more than five blossoms ...

Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Samuel Richard Johnson Jr., of ...