It wasn’t mosquito coils and a springtime fish--Katori (香取) and Sawara ... created shrines to pray for protection from natural disasters. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), one of Japan’s ...

This time we venture out to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture. It's a 300-year-old town where merchant families prospered thanks to the Tone River. We see how the community is upholding its traditions.

A shrine on Japan's Tsushima Island has banned all tourists from visiting after an "unforgivable" incident involving a tourist (nice spot, and thanks for the translation, Automaton). The Watazumi ...