A 65-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by Japanese police on charges of vandalizing the wooden torii gate of one of Tokyo's most frequently visited shrines, Meiji Jingu. Officers arrested the ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed “floating” torii gate of Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site under repair, was revealed for the first time in about three and a half years.

But now, Kanonji city has something new to offer: the “torii gate in the sky” of the “hongu” main building of Takayajinja shrine that sits atop 404-meter-high Mount Inazumiyama.

He told me there were two people from Oregon roaming around the northeast with what sounded like an impossible mission: they were in possession of what appeared to be parts of Torii gates that had ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long path up Mount Inari, where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times ...

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is a single-player action game from Capcom, tasking players to protect a shrine maiden from ...

But one day, Raizan vanishes. Shao searches for her, but years pass with no success. Then, carrying her sister's sword, Shao stumbles upon a mysterious torii gate and enters the unknown world of the ...

On a brilliant, sunny day, I float through a beautiful Japanese garden, a bright vermillion torii gate to my left and workers to my right. As I enter the sake house in this virtual world, I move my ...