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

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.

After Japan’s Prime Minister responded to questions around Assassin’s Creed: Shadows and the risk of copycat "defacing" of shrines, the shrine linked to Ghost of Tsushima has banned all ...

Unresolved colonial histories and collective traumas continue to shape relations in East Asia through significant historical ...

A curved piece of wood, painted red, removed from a beach in Oregon may be a piece of a shrine set to sea by the 2011 Japanese tsunami. The debris has not yet been confirmed as originating from ...

It drew war widows to Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial to Japan’s war dead in central Tokyo, on August 15, the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. And across the capital at Meiji Shrine, as the ...

Priests attend the Autumn Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine to present the Imperial offerings and read the Gosaimon, or Imperial message, on October 19, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. Getty Images ...

N Yotarou Every 20 years, locals tear down the Ise Jingu grand shrine in Mie Prefecture, Japan, only to rebuild it anew. They have been doing this for around 1,300 years.