women in kimono pray in front of about 1,000 Japanese candles lined up along the river in the town. Their prayers include a wish to meet a good marriage partner and hopes that people affected by ...

It is a festival in which the goddess on the main land welcomes goddesses from Okinoshima and Oshima islands once a year, and ...

as these farmhouse’s steeply slanted thatched roofs bear an uncanny resemblance to the clasped hands of a person engaged in solemn prayer. I love the Japanese word "gassho," and I find it ...

Kite-flying events were held across Japan this weekend to pray for a ceasefire and peace in the Gaza Strip. At a park in Tokyo's Odaiba district on Saturday, about 50 people, including parents and ...