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.

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 ...

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 ...

US Senate Democrats debate path forward on government funding bill U.S. Senate Democrats were wrestling on Wednesday with how to respond to a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican ...

Wright received an original request from Meiji Shrine to translate poems of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912) and Empress Shoken (1850-1914) in 1964, when he was a student at Tokyo’s Keio University.

Japan is an amazing country for solos. Whether you’re seeking serenity in tranquil temples or the pulse of vibrant city ...

Built to enshrine the spirits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken in 1920, the shrine is a more than 700,000 sq m oasis of calm in the heart of the city, with long, tree-lined pathways that lead ...