Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for “death” was found graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, after ...

Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine’s name was found to be defaced with the word “toilet” spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted ...

drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past. The shrine includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied ...

The war criminals included wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Visits by Japanese leaders to the controversial shrine trigger a backlash from China and South Korea. Former Prime Minister Fumio ...

Netflix continues to be a great mainstream platform for the best anime. Live-action originals are undoubtedly the focus, including anime-to-live-action adaptations like One Piece, but the streamer ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

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 ...

Aoshima Shrine, an island sanctuary just off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, has installed lights to illuminate the main shrine, torii gates, and surrounding pathways after dark. The tourism ...

Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...

[Photo/Agencies] TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past brutal militarism, on the occasion ...