A lot of the most popular shrines and temples are actually open 24/7, so the fact that you can technically go whenever you ...

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“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence ...

As the years rolled on, Nohmi Bosai made it to the Tokyo Stock Exchange during the post-war boom. By the 1960s, they were ...

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Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... Hirofumi Tanada, professor emeritus of sociology at Waseda University in Tokyo, reckons that Japan is now home to more than 200,000 Muslims.

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...