In 'Atlas,' Roméo Mivekannin draws attention to the colonialist practices and ethical gray areas that permeate many European ...

A massive warship sat calmly at the dock of Pier 15 in Port Area, Manila on Saturday, June 21. She had just arrived after a seven-day-long journey from ...

When exploring Kyoto, head to an iconic neighborhood in the heart of the city, boasting iconic art museums and a Shinto ...

One of the easiest ways to get a true sampling of the whole country is by booking a two-week cruise, which means you unpack ...

Japan has more than 80,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, including top attractions like Tokyo’s grand Senso-ji, Kyoto’s sublime Kiyomizu-dera, and Osaka’s majestic Shitenno-ji.

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

It is a 2,000-year-old Shinto shrine in Ise Bay, some 90 miles southeast of Kyoto, that for over 13 centuries has been dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years regardless of its condition — the ...

As at every Shinto shrine, the faithful begin by symbolically purifying themselves, washing their hands and rinsing their mouths with water poured from delicate dippers hung above a trough.

Shinto shrines. I served as a shrine maiden in a shrine in Tokyo from the age of 18 to 22. My work was to help clean the shrine and to grant omamori (Japanese amulets) to the worshippers and visitors.

On New Year’s Day especially, prayers pile up at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples throughout Japan. Written on wooden plaques, called ema, these wishes float to the heavens. “Find me. Love ...

The art of sumo wrestling: ... white lines are placed in the centre of the ring to signify the wrestlers’ starting position and a roof similar to a Shinto shrine is raised.

The Meiji Shrine, according to its website, is a Shinto site established in 1920 to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken for taking “the initiative to make a foundation of modernized ...