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Elaborate sting operation lasts over four hours, ends with an officer tripping over and another one appearing from the bushes in a full-on Ghillie suit.

Japan
(arrests • camouflage • COK • crime • culture • Ghillie suit • police • religion • Saitama • shinto • shrines • stakeout • theft • video)

Cat in Japan finds the perfect shrine to take shelter from the rain at

Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2020

Cats have a habit of hanging out wherever they want to, but at this shrine felines are honored guests.

Japan
(animals • cats • culture • cute • history • shinto • shrines)

Sacred 1,200-year-old tree toppled by severe storm at shrine in central Japan【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Jul 14, 2020

Shinmei Shrine’s sacred cedar saved the community twice, according to local legends.

Japan
(nature • shinboku • shinto • shrines • storm • trees)

Tradition meets summer blooms as shrines arrange beautiful floating flower displays【Pics, Video】

Ingrid Tsai
Jun 29, 2020

Shrines are cooling off from the summer heat by taking the art of flower arrangement to a whole new level.
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Japan
(culture • flower arrangement • hanachouzu • Instagrammable • shinto • shrines)

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Why this centuries’ old Shinto shrine is suddenly also a hot spot for anime fan art【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2020

Whether you call it Demon Slayer or Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kamado Shrine is the place to go for fans of the hit anime/manga.

Japan
(anime • art • COK • Dazaifu • Demon Slayer • ema • Fukuoka • Kamado Shrine • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • shinto • shrines • SNJO • travel)

Coronavirus changes how Tokyo shrine handles centuries’ old purification process for visitors

Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2020

Priests fear traditional custom could lead to infection, provide modern alternative.

Japan
(COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • culture • purification • religeon • shinto • shrines)

Japanese shrine bans foreign visitors following disrespectful behaviour by tourists

SoraNews24
Jan 13, 2020

Nagasaki priest says over-tourism, vandalism and theft of amulets led to his controversial decision.

China, Japan
(Nagasaki • priest • racism • religion • shinto • shrines • temples • Tsushima • vandalism)

Busting one of the biggest myths about the five-yen coin and shrine offerings in Japan

Casey Baseel
Jan 9, 2020

You may have heard giving a certain amount of money will win you favor with the gods, but a very high authority says otherwise.

Japan
(coins • COK • culture • five-yen coin • Izumo Shrine • Izumo Taisha • puns • religion • shinto • shrines • temples • yen)

Can the powers of the Tokyo area’s literal money-laundering shrine make us rich? We find out

Casey Baseel
Dec 28, 2019

Our latest get-rich-quick scheme takes us to a Shinto shrine in Kamakura with an 835-year history.

Japan
(COK • experiment • Go Hatori • Kamakura • Kanagawa • lottery • shinto • shrines • SNJO • travel)

Buildings used for the emperor’s Daijosai ceremony are open for public viewing until December 8

Krista Rogers
Dec 6, 2019

Now’s your last chance to see structures that can’t be seen again until the ascension of the next emperor.

Japan
(culture • Emperor • Emperor Naruhito • Emperor of Japan • Imperial Palace • Reiwa • shinto • shrines • Tokyo)

Vandalism on rise at Japanese shrines as pro-Hong Kong protest prayer boards are defaced

Casey Baseel
Nov 22, 2019

Ema supporting ongoing Hong Kong protests have been crossed out, snapped into pieces, and written over in Chinese.

China, Japan
(COK • ema • Hong Kong • Hong Kong Protests • politics • shinto • shrines • temples • vandalism)

Japanese Christian groups hold press conference to protest emperor’s enthronement ceremony

Casey Baseel
Oct 24, 2019

Coalition calls government involvement “a threat to freedom of faith.”

Japan
(COK • culture • Emperor • Emperor of Japan • enthronement ceremony • religion • shinto • society)

Our reporter visited a dangerous torii at a Shinto shrine and almost had a heart attack

Krista Rogers
Aug 29, 2019

“Don’t wear headphones if you go there”: this important piece of advice will make sense in a moment.

Japan
(COK • crazy • dangerous • scary • shinto • shrines • SNJO • torii • trains • travel)

Christian groups in Japan criticize emperor’s ascension ceremony as violation of constitution

Casey Baseel
May 2, 2019

Spokesmen say this week’s ceremony, and another scheduled for October, violate the principal of separation of church and state.

Japan
(Christianity • COK • controversy • culture • Emperor Akihito • Emperor Naruhito • Emperor of Japan • religion • shinto • society)

Man finds incredible “door to another world” right in the middle of Tokyo【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2018

While out for a stroll in Ginza, he found a portal that seemed to take him not just to another place, but another time…twice.

Japan
(awesome • cool • Ginza • shinto • shrines • Tokyo • video)

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