The global hit anime “Demon Slayer” (known in Japan as “Kimetsu no Yaiba”) is approaching its conclusion. The final story arc ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village ... one Shinto shrine and a church.

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan ... records say the village of Subashiri, about 10 kilometers from the crater, was the worst-hit community. It was home to Fujisengen Shrine, which served ...

High up in the Japanese Alps, the only sounds I hear are ... and laden horses sometimes took days to pass through a single village. Those who traversed this route were important and wealthy ...

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 ...

Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community ... A drawing of the old village lays across ...