The historic Gwanwoldang structure has been repatriated to Korea, revealing intricate components for restoration at the Traditional Architecture Elements Conservation Center.

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

Kyoto, ancient capital of Japan, is a magical place, where travelers can visit World Heritage shrines, temples and castles ...

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 ...

This past June, a group of 59 Rockbridge County High School students, their family members, and chaperones ventured to the ...

From a distance, the beam appears no different from an ordinary piece of timber. But stepping closer, its surface reveals ...

Japanese police on Monday arrested a man claiming to be Chinese for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, the Metropolitan ...

The Shinto shrine - a spectacular building with sweeping roofs and a museum in its grounds that glorifies kamikaze pilots - has set off controversy by honoring the 2.5 million Japanese war dead ...

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 ...

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 ...