That gorgeous color! Upon seeing Kasuga Taisha shrine for the first time, what jumps out, I believe, is that trademark brilliant vermilion: the cloisters, railings, pillars, gates--all dashing ...

NARA--Priceless treasures from Kasuga Taisha here are on display to celebrate the rebuilding of Wakamiyajinja, an auxiliary shrine within the complex. The renovation, called “shikinen zotai ...

Members of a right-wing group bow their heads to honour the war dead at the shrine The chief priest at Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine is to resign after making remarks highly critical of ...

A Tokyo court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over his involvement in a May graffiti incident at the capital’s war-linked Yasukuni Shrine.