The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

6 at the Meiji Jingu Museum of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo as part of an exhibition commemorating the centenary of the shrine’s establishment. The flowing dress was preserved at Daishoji, an imperial ...

Meiji-jingū is a Shinto ... 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 August, the pillars ...

On Sunday, carvings resembling Chinese characters were discovered on another gate leading to the Meiji Jingu shrine. This week, the police also launched an investigation after finding a symbol ...

Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...

The Japan Times reported that the letters were carved into a wooden pillar of a traditional entrance, known as a torii gate, at the Meiji Shrine. Hayes allegedly used his fingernails to etch five ...

Tokyo police arrested a 65-year-old American man Wednesday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s ...