The Chilean gymnast apologised after a video of the stunt elicited widespread condemnation from Japanese social media users.

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A Chilean tourist sparked outrage by doing pull-ups on a sacred shrine gate in Japan. Video shows fitness influencer Maria ...

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If your experience with Japanese food has been limited to what you’d find in local restaurants, The Tsubaki Tower’s all-day ...

Shrines, temples and torii gates appear at every turn, each one intentionally placed near a tumbling waterfall or a ...

It was hard not to be moved by the stream of pilgrims and visitors leaving offerings and prayers for a man who Nobu described ...

The old Taisugar railway station is a good jumping-off point for a walking tour of downtown Lukang. Though the interior is ...

The great floating gate (O-Torii) on Miyajima island near Itsukushima shinto shrine. The Larsens say overall, they liked their coastal Japan adventure. The highlights were seeing some of the out ...

Near midnight I wandered out to a small Shinto shrine where a row of stone monuments ... the temple through Kaminarimon, the “thunder gate,” just across the street. To the east a short dark ...

F rom gold-clad temples and the refined performance of geishas to giant Buddhas, neon-drenched skylines, Shinto shrines and Shinkansen bullet trains, Japan is a dazzling mix of ancient and modern.