On Monday, police said they were investigating after the kanji character for “death” was graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine honouring Japan’s war dead.

Otajinja shrine ... on Japan’s northernmost main island. After going through the torii gate at the mountain foot, tourists heading for the main hall will soon be in front of a steep stone ...

Japan's defense minister on Friday visited a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression to pray for the war dead just days before the nation marks the ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion ... to write down a personal prayer or wish and tie it to the prayer wall to commemorate your experience at the shrine.