At Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine, it’s not unusual for visitors to catch a glimpse of a traditional wedding, the couple led in procession by Shinto priests under a large red umbrella. Located within the ...

Grand sumo champion Yokozuna Terunofuji performs the Shiranui-style entering ceremony for the new year's dedication at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI 30,197 people ...

TOKYO (May 30, 2012) -- Girl Scouts from an Army installation in Japan were recognized May 26, at the site of the country's largest Shinto shrine for aid they provided to children displaced by the ...

An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of property ...

Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama has brought a monumental stainless steel sculpture to Tokyo as part of the Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art. Curated by Art Powers Japan, the ...

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 ...