Japan's love affair with swords extends far beyond history books; its deep connection to these blades runs through centuries and continues to have an influence today on Japanese society ...

FIFTY years ago, on May 15, 1975, Aurit and I got married in a Catholic church, committing to live a life together “for richer or poorer, for better or worse.” So, this May, we are celebrating our ...

As the World’s Fair opens in Osaka, Japan, the event’s architect tells CNN that Expo 2025 is about unity — and the ...

This date has been named National Laverbread Day in Wales in Kathleen's honour to celebrate the Welsh seaweed that inspired her findings. The hilltop shrine just west of the city of Uto overlooks the ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

A ceremony has been held at a gateway to Japan's Northern Alps to mark the start of the climbing season. Our site uses ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ... to the state religion of Shintoism that mobilized the wartime ...

Instead, Ishiba plans to make a ritual "masakaki" tree offering to the Shinto shrine as he did during ... is regarded by neighboring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism because ...

Acknowledging and releasing our grief can help us return to nature. We can let the wind touch our skin, the earth ground our ...