A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

Shinto is often described as Japan’s indigenous religion—but can it expand beyond Japan? While traditionally tied to Japanese culture, shrines, and national identity, modern practitioners argue that ...

There are religions that put their believers' faith to the test with harsh trials. On a mountain in Japan, that test is not ...

USA, Oita — There are about 40,000 Shinto shrines that are called “Hachimansha” or “Hachimangu” in Japan. These are headed by Usa Jingu shrine in Usa, Oita Prefecture, which will celebrate the 1,300th ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Northern Liberties has been a fixture every Christmas season for the past several decades. Church ...

THE resumption of business activities inside a 400-million-year-old limestone cave is raising public concerns about the long term effects on Selangor’s Gombak-Hulu Langat Geopark (GHL Geopark ...

Tales of the miraculous have always encircled the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. The story of its 1950 founding goes that the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda purchased the 10-acre ...

For 75 years, the 10-acre Pacific Palisades property has been a sanctuary for people of all faiths. Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old ...

A religious shrine, believed to have been sealed by the ancestors of ... During the excavation, archaeologists uncovered several 8th-century BC artefacts hidden behind a stone wall in a cave. These ...