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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese national living in Japan was arrested over ... the word “Toilet” in English on a stone pillar near the entrance to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in May.

A businessman in Japan has offered a reward of 10m ... suspect spray-painting the word “toilet” on a stone pillar at the controversial shrine, located just north of the capital’s Imperial ...