In his tenth observational film, The Cats of Gokōgū Shrine, Sōda, a graduate of the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York, focuses his lens on the residents—human and feline—of ...

Also this week, the police reported the initiation of an investigation after a symbol meaning "death" was discovered in two places on the stone wall of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. In June and ...

On a recent excursion to the Akabane neighborhood in Tokyo’s northern Kita Ward, we were taking one of our usual ambling exploratory strolls when we spotted a sign underneath a railroad underpass ...

Tokyo is a lively capital, but look beyond its glittering skyline and you will find charming narrow streets, age-old shrines and zen ... of the famous lucky cat (maneki-neko), this charming ...