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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 ...

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.

Unfortunately, he made a misguided attempt at a joke by carving letters with his fingernails into one of the pillars of the torii, a traditional gate at the entrance to the Meiji-jingū shrine.

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 ...

The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward ...

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 ...

Meiji Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo dedicated to Emperor Meiji and his consort Empress Shoken, was found to have been vandalized on November 10. According to police, kanji characters and multiple ...

The rows of ginkgo trees with their yellow leaves are also famous. Meijijingu Gaien (outer gardens of Meiji Shrine) was constructed to pass down the achievements of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken.