Eight of the nation’s 32 national parks have been selected by an Environment Ministry panel for a pilot project aimed at attracting more foreign tourists to sites of natural beauty. As part of the project, the ministry will request additional funds for the parks ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looked satisfied as he met top leaders from the Group of Seven countries at the gate to a giant Shinto-style wooden bridge.
Although local excitement appears to be building about a plan for the Group of Seven leaders to visit Japan’s most prestigious shrine later next week, some religious scholars are taking issue with the move as a possible conflict with the principle of the separation ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to take Group of Seven leaders to Japan’s most prestigious Shinto shrine later this month when they gather in the Ise-Shima area for their annual summit, government sources have said. Abe is eager to show the leaders from Britain, ...
Ise Shrine can offer world leaders a valuable message when they gather there in May.
Photos of a dimly lit Uji Bridge at night, sacred horses walking on the front approach to the shrine, artists performing court music and dance. These are among dozens of images depicting scenes at Ise Shrine that have been uploaded to its Instagram account, ...
Just before departing for this year’s Group of Seven summit in Germany earlier this month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Shima, situated at the end of a peninsula in Mie Prefecture, will be the main venue for next year’s annual gathering. The announcement ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to hold the 2016 G-7 summit close to Ise Shrine underlines his conservative credentials.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture on Wednesday, following the ceremony last October to transfer the shrine deity to a new building. During their visit to the shrine, the Imperial jewel and sword, two of the family’s three sacred ...
The end of the year is traditionally a time of review and new prospects, a time to weave memories of the past with plans for the future to form the narrative cloth of a coherent identity.
Immaculate and ramrod straight in a crisp, black suit, Japan’s education minister, Hakubun Shimomura, speaks like a schoolteacher — slowly and deliberately.
To attract foreign visitors on the occasion of Ise Shrine’s “shikinen sengu” renovation event in October, held once every two decades, the host city in Mie Prefecture will start providing subsidies for tourist facilities to prepare information in English. Starting Saturday, the city of ...
