Crowds gathered at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine on Wednesday (January 1) morning to offer prayers for the new year in 2025. Jimmy Kimmel tearfully returns to late night during Los Angeles wildfires The ...

Grand sumo champion Yokozuna Terunofuji performs the Shiranui-style entering ceremony for the new year's dedication at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Tuesday. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI Jan. 7 (UPI ...

New Year's Day worshippers packed the grounds of Meiji Jingu, a major Shinto shrine in central Tokyo, praying that good luck will come their way in 2025. They began forming queues late at night on ...

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 ...

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Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...

Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, in particular ... For those staying at home on Tuesday night, NHK's popular “Kohaku Uta Gassen” will air from 7:20 p.m. Though it has lost some of its luster in the past 15 ...

Tokyo's Meiji Shrine enshrines Emperor Meiji, who ruled from 1868 until 1912 and oversaw Japan's modernization drive, and his wife, Empress Shoken. It is one of the country's prime destinations ...

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.

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. Japanese ...