The largest festival of its kind in Japan, the Dontosai Festival, held at Osaki Hachimangu Shrine in Miyagi Prefecture, is a ...

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

Morihide Naka Shinto priest, Konda Hachimangu Shrine An aerial view gives a clear ... Concentrated on a plateau above the Osaka plain, the kofun were the terraced tombs of the king’s clan.

A walking tour through the Kunisaki Peninsula in Kyushu is an invitation to appreciate the country’s beauty at a snail’s pace ...

A large white snake painted on a giant ema wooden wishing plaque is waiting to greet New Year visitors to Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture. The painting, which is about 2.7 ...

Representative image/Reuters Protests erupted Wednesday (December 25) in several parts of Syria after a video circulated showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the northern city of Aleppo, ...

All you need to know about Kashmir's Roza Bal Shrine It shot to fame in 2010 when a New York-based writer, Suzanne Olsson, claimed that the site was her 'private family tomb'. DH Web Desk ...

The event, rooted in Japanese mythology, had participants laughing loudly for 20 minutes. Some laughed while looking at one another, while others captured their smiles on their phones. A 17-year ...

A crowd of people gathered Monday to participate in a year-end Shinto ritual in Osaka, western Japan ... The annual event took place at Hiraoka Shrine in Higashiosaka City. The ritual is based ...

During this challenge, players can encounter (in various situations) the phrase “venerate a Maraketh shrine”. What does it mean? You will learn it from our guide. Trial of the Sekhemas is quite a ...