Food & Drink May 5, 2018
Annual festival sees cows under the hammer for a cool ¥25 million
by Lance Henderstein
In Mie Prefecture, the city of Matsusaka celebrates its animal husbandry with a cattle auction each November.
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Feb 25, 2017
Is Abe attempting to fuse the church and state?
by Michael Hoffman
It was morning in the land of the gods. "The mountains and the waters serve our sovereign," wrote a seventh-century poet. "And she (Empress Jito), a goddess, is out on her pleasure-barge upon the foaming rapids." Lovely times those must have been. If only they ...
National Dec 20, 2013
Ise Jingu Shrine, fresh off its Sengyo-no-gi in October, the main event in the "shikinen sengu" ritual of transferring the deity to a new shrine building every two decades, is drawing record crowds. The number of worshippers flocking to the shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, ...