Hundreds of people on June 9 welcomed the arrival of the sacred wood that will be used to rebuild a divine palace at Ise ...

Ise-Shima, Japan CNN — Aiko Ohno dives down in the cool waters off Japan’s Ise-Shima National Park, scanning the rocky seabed for urchins and turban shells. Three meters deep, she swims with ...

Japanese records over the centuries include ... describes the merfolk’s appearance in great detail. A story of Ise Province (now Mie Prefecture) in the previous century tells how fishermen ...

There are 80,000 shrines to such spirits throughout Japan. But Ise Jingu is special. This is the shrine in which it is believed the spirits of the Japanese imperial family’s ancestors are ...

Another tradition deserves its place in Japan's storytelling to the world: Ise Jingu (officially known as "Jingu") and its 20-year ritual known as Shikinen Sengu (shrine reconstruction ceremony ...

Ise Grand Shrine (called Ise-jingu or often just Jingu in Japanese) is Japan’s most important Shinto shrine. It’s the main location of worship for the top deity in the Japanese pantheon, the sun ...

Ever since then, Ise Jingu shrine has been the home of Amaterasu Omikami, making it one of the most sacred places in Japan. The sun goddess resides in the Naiku, Inner Shrine — the most sacred ...

TSU -- The roof of a Western-style church near the Ise Jingu shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture ... which belongs to the United Church of Christ in Japan. From the outside it is a mostly white ...