Okayama Prefecture is said to be the birthplace of Momotaro, the protagonist of Japan’s most famous folktale. Several local ...

17, the start of the shrine's autumn festival, but he made a ritual offering of "masakaki" evergreen twigs. He sent the ceremonial implement for Shinto rituals under the name of “Prime ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a ritual offering Oct. 17 to a Shinto shrine in Tokyo that Chinese and Koreans view as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, but did not go in person.