Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.

Ubisoft faces backlash in Japan over Assassin’s Creed Shadows due to historical inaccuracies and disrespectful portrayals of ...

HITACHINAKA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A retired railcar has made its debut as a unique Shinto shrine on unused tracks on Hitachinaka Seaside Railway Co.'s Minato Line here. A Shinto ritual was ...

Japanese critics say the video game from French developer Ubisoft distorts history and disrespects sacred sites.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows faces backlash in Japan over historical inaccuracies and the depiction of a Shinto shrine’s ...

This shrine in Kumamoto Pref. was razed in the 2016 earthquake. The seven-year restoration fused traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology. It had a magnitude of 7.3 and a reading of 7 ...

This time we introduce "Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble," which presents the recovery project of Aso Jinja, a Shinto shrine destroyed in the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016.

A shrine representative commented ... a traditional method. Seven Shinto priests, including deputy chief priest Masuhiro Murakami, oversaw the cooking process while chanting purification prayers.

Japanese critics say the video game from French developer Ubisoft distorts history and disrespects sacred sites.

Ubisoft faces backlash after a sacred Japanese shrine in "Assassin's Creed Shadows" is shown being destroyed. For officials, this doesn't just sit right.