The building is named "Tokaden," literally meaning "wisteria mist hall," with the kanji character for "fuji" (wisteria) symbolizing the Fujiwara clan, who enshrined their ancestral deity at ...

While walking through a shopping arcade in Osaka — here a tatami tearoom, there a French cafe, in between a McDonald’s — you’ll notice Chinese characters, known as kanji, on many ...

That is what I love about analogue photography - I never know what I have until months later when I have made the contact sheets Along the way he visited Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines ...

Shiv Shankar, a Delhi hawker, sells unique kanji made from fermented rye, blending spices, as he navigates the city with his bicycle. Wrapped in a wet red cloth, the earthen lota is perched atop ...

Zag, the independent animation studio founded by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous” co-creator and producer, is opening an outpost in Japan and has appointed former Toei Animation boss Kanji Kazahaya as ...

Dogecoin (DOGE) is a cryptocurrency built around the popular “doge” meme featuring a Shiba Inu. Founder Jackson Palmer announced the project on Twitter in November 2013 as a joke. When friends ...

Negainomiya shrine in Osaka's Chuo Ward started offering Shinto-style marriage rites for same-sex pairs about eight years ago. It also gives advice for gay couples on such occasions as bridal fairs.

The idea that you should take 10,000 steps a day is believed to have come from a Japanese company’s pedometer, which was called a 10,000-steps meter (particularly because the Japanese symbol for ...

Central Pattana Plc., Thailand's leading real estate developer for sustainability and operator of Central Si Racha, invites the public to visit and worship at the "Shinto Shrine Si Racha" The shrine, ...