People pass through the entrance gate to the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images An American tourist is accused of desecrating the entrance ...

The Japanese arm of an advisory body to UNESCO has called on the Tokyo metropolitan government to review a redevelopment project for the scenic Meiji Jingu Gaien district on grounds it could ...

Mounting concern and criticism over a mammoth project to redevelop the scenic Meiji Jingu Gaien district in central Tokyo needs to be addressed. The developers should seek to undertake in-depth ...

If everyone would just follow the rules like they do at home, we wouldn't have this problem. There was such a sign the last time I was at Meiji Jingu. If you enter from the Harajuku station side, you ...

Trees in Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien area have started to be cut down to make way for a redevelopment project. If all goes according to plan, 619 trees will be removed. It is hard to say that the ...

A group of residents is suing Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward over a controversial redevelopment project in the Meiji Jingu Gaien district. The plaintiffs are demanding the revocation of a permit issued by ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday (Nov 13) on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into the pillar of a torii gate of the Meiji Jingu ...