Celebrated for 3 days in November, Tori-no-Ichi fair brings together history and tradition, while each of its ornamental rakes is brimming with lucky charms.
This year, so many events all over Japan have been either canceled or scaled down, but the residents of Kasama, found an ingenious way to keep...
A recent booklet titled MIYOGAWARI takes on the range of rituals marking the changing of Japan’s era from Heisei to Reiwa. It aims to explain...
The engagement of Princess Ayako of Takamado to Kei Moriya, a 32-year-old commoner working for the major Japanese shipping firm Nippon Yusen K.K...
The famous Kaguraden adjacent to Izumo Taisha As I learned on my most recent trip, the pleasure of rural Japan is that you’ll never...