On Sunday, dozens of men and women braved the freezing temperatures at Tokyo's Teppozu Inari shrine, taking part in a traditional ice-water bathing ceremony to welcome the new year. Participants, ...

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Young people wearing traditional kimono have shot their first arrows of the year in a New Year's archery event at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto.

Large traditional kites are on display at the Japanese garden in Showa Kinen Park, which spans Tachikawa and Akishima cities in Tokyo, to help visitors enjoy the spirit of the New Year. These kites ...

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In a community that is surrounded by mountains, straw has been an integral part of daily life through the use of sandals, trivets and baskets for picking Japanese sansho peppers ... She said it leads ...

A traditional New Year's event to ward off evil has been held in the city of Wajima in central Japan for the first time ... Cultural Heritage. Eight men in masks went around the community in ...

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The ADU, which cost about $375,000, is uncluttered, with open beams exposing redwood planks and walls lined with juraku plaster, a traditional Japanese wall finish made of clay, sand, straw and water.

An annual anti-Christmas protest held by Japan's Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men failed to materialise this year as the group didn't put in their paperwork. The long-running protest ...