What looks like a fire massacre is actually an ancient ritual. Japan's Wakakusa Yamayaki Festival sets Mount Wakakusa in Nara ...

People have soaked in frigid water at a shrine in western Japan to pray for good health in the New Year. Our site uses ...

A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men wearing little more than ...

ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content.

At Daichi-in temple in the city of Chita, Aichi Prefecture, the production of "fukumasu" boxes used for bean-throwing rituals ...

Ba'ndo's ‘Why the Rush?’ campaign for Nippon Matcha won Bronze and Gold at The Drum Awards for Design. Here, the team explain ...