From Shinto and skincare to vaporwave and ukiyo-e, Japan’s art and beauty standards are shaped by the "toumeikan" aesthetics.

Visiting a Shinto shrine requires more than quiet admiration—it calls for an understanding of its rituals, from purifying ...

A shrine on Japan's Tsushima Island has banned all tourists from visiting after an "unforgivable" incident involving a tourist (nice spot, and thanks for the translation, Automaton).

Dozens of Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday paid their respects at a war shrine vilified as a symbol of the country's past militarism, amid concerns Tokyo may build up its armed forces against the ...

TOKYO – Most Japanese believe Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (search) should halt his annual visits to a Tokyo war shrine, poll results released Monday showed amid warnings from China that ...

TOKYO — A group of about 100 Japanese lawmakers Tuesday prayed at a controversial Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, 80 years after Japan’s ...

TOKYO — A group of about 100 Japanese lawmakers prayed at a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and the Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression on Tuesday, 80 years after Japan’s attack on ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted World War II war criminals, was vandalized again overnight Monday.

The Japanese lawmakers who went to the shrine defended their decision to go to the site where 14 of Japan’s Class-A war criminals from World War II are enshrined with thousands of Japanese soldiers.

Many Japanese regard the 19th century Tokyo shrine as the appropriate place to pray for the country’s 2.5 million war dead, whereas critics see it as a symbol of unapologetic militarism.