The Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto City is home to about 250 cherry trees. The double-flowered weeping variety are now in full bloom. The area was previously home to a villa of the once-powerful ...

Mitsui Fudosan Co., the Meiji Jingu shrine, the Japan Sport Council and Itochu Corp. started work on the 349 billion yen ($2.3 billion) project in March last year. But in September, the ...

Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for ...

Kyoto Takigi Noh, an outdoor torchlit performance, took place at the Heian Jingu shrine for the first time in three years after the novel coronavirus pandemic forced its cancellation the past two ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it. Japanese ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into the pillar of a torii gate of the Meiji Jingu Shrine on ...