Plans to demolish a historic baseball stadium where Babe Ruth played and an adjacent rugby venue are at the heart of a ...

A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

The Meiji Jingu shrine, in Tokyo, honours the Emperor Meiji and his wife Empress Shoken (Picture: Meremagnum/Getty Images) An American tourist was arrested for defacing one of Tokyo ’s most ...

The Meiji shrine is a Shinto shrine that “was established in 1920, to commemorate the virtue of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken who took the initiative to make a foundation of modernized Japan ...

The Meiji Shrine was established in 1920 in honor of Emperor Meiji, Japan’s 112nd emperor who ascended to the throne in 1867, and his wife Empress Shoken.

Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine and popular tourist destination in Tokyo that "commemorate (s) the virtue of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken who took the initiative to make a foundation of ...

Staff at the Meiji Jingu shrine, constructed in 1920 to honour the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife Empress Shoken, discovered the damage the same day and alerted police, who arrested Hayes ...

King George V appointed two different Emperors to the Garter—Emperor Hirohito, in 1929, and Emperor Yoshihito, in 1912—and King Edward VII appointed Emperor Meiji (Naruhito's great-great ...

The Pearl Sunburst Parure and the Meiji Tiara are just two of the range of jewels that the Japanese royal family have at their disposal - and we are likely to see the latter tonight.