Are you one of 40 million travelers expected to visit Japan soon, but want a place less touristy than Tokyo and Kyoto?

These worldwide destinations burst with stunning pink and white sakura each spring, offering breathtaking cherry blossom ...

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was a distinguished scholar and statesman of the Heian period (794–1185), known for his deep love of plum blossoms. As a result, nearly every Tenjin shrine across Japan—numbering around 12,000 ...

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A man charged with the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has dropped his appeal to overturn his death sentence, a Japanese high court said Tuesday, finalizing the verdict over ...

A high court in western Japan says a man sentenced to death for ... Aoba Shinji, now 46, was charged with setting fire to the Kyoto Animation studio in Kyoto City in July 2019, killing 36 workers ...

One of the premier postseason all-star games on the NFL Draft circuit is the East-West Shrine Bowl. For the last two years, it has been in the DFW metroplex area, last year at The Star in Frisco ...

On Day 2 of Shrine Bowl practices, players, including the New York Giants, emerged as those many will want to keep their eyes on throughout this offseason process. The best reps are separating ...

Operatives of the newly launched security outfit, Agunechemba, have allegedly uncovered 30 graves and a shrine within the premises of a popular hotel in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of ...

Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Sheduer Sanders arrived as advertised for the start of the Shrine Bowl; however, he elected to skip the practices and instead held court on the microphone as he met ...