With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

Facing backlash, Nur Athirah Najwa, the sister of the teenage car driver involved, expressed remorse for not acknowledging ...

A film about how cats and humans coexist at a Japanese shrine is enchanting international audiences. Set in a Shinto shrine, ...

Set in a Shinto shrine, nestled among the swaying cherry blossoms in the seaside town of Ushimado, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine is the new film from Japanese filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda. It tells the story ...

A detailed look at three times when Western video games have been on the spotlight for getting Japanese culture wrong ...

The Osaka High Court has become the fifth high court in Japan to rule that current laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, but lawmakers remain slow to respond.

Shiroikaze circle club was an important role for me during my stay in Japan. Thank to this circle I met a lot of great people ...

Japanese director Soda Kazuhiro has made documentaries about fishing villages and the impact of modernisation. This time he's focusing on a pack of entitled cats, and what they can tell us about the ...

One of Japan’s most colourful festivals, the Sanja Matsuri is a rowdy mix of religious ritual and wild street party ...

A unique Shinto ritual predicting the fortune of the year based on mold growth on okayu rice porridge was held at Chiriku ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...