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 ...

The controversy surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows hasn't escaped the attention of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, especially when it comes to the in-game defacing of a Shinto shrine.

Watatsumi Shrine completely bans all tourists, both international and domestic, following repeated disrespectful behaviour.

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan ... started from the shrine. About 30 priests and local ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

The act of destroying it is seen as insensitive among the Shinto community in Japan. Furthermore, government officials have suggested that no shrine officials or priests were approached about ...

TOKYO – A Japanese lawmaker on March 19 slammed the latest video game in the hit “Assassin’s Creed” series, complaining that a samurai character destroys the interior of a Shinto shrine.

complaining that a samurai character destroys the interior of a Shinto shrine. "Shadows" -- the game by France's Ubisoft, to be released on Thursday -- is set in 16th-century feudal Japan inspired ...