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Haneda Airport’s proximity to downtown Tokyo, at a distance of approximately ... so we started our day at the Meiji Jingu ...
Reporter An American visiting Japan with his family has been arrested on suspicion of vandalism after allegedly desecrating Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Shrine. According to Reuters, the 65-year-old ...
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 ...
It’s so close to downtown, yet it’s surrounded by ... including redevelopment of the leafy Jingu Gaien area between Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine and the Imperial Palace. Opponents of the project ...
The controversial Tokyo shrine’s wide stone path, normally reserved for quiet prayers and camera-clicking tourists, transforms into a place of spectacle and celebration. At the center of this ...
The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited ... of the god while fishing on the Sumida River. The Senso-ji shrine is dedicated to this lucky catch and features a small homage ...
TOKYOTOKYO — Japanese police are searching for the suspects who spray-painted the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country’s war dead, in an apparent protest against ...
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan's justice minister visited a Tokyo war shrine Saturday morning to become the second member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet attending its latest ritual, which has already ...