Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

Meiji Jingu, which owns much of the project site, said the redevelopment of Gaien (the Outer Garden) is necessary to maintain Naien (the Inner Garden), where the shrine stands. Officials said the ...

Wright received an original request from Meiji Shrine to translate poems of Emperor ... According to Masahiro Sato, director of the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute, Wright’s ...

The procession departed from the Kyoto Gyoen National Garden in the ... goes back in time from the Meiji era. The festival was first held in 1895, when Heian Jingu Shrine was built, to commemorate ...