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Young children gathered at a Tokyo shrine, Sunday, to pray for their calculation skills to be improved. More than a hundred ...

A scantily clad shrine parishioner throws icy cold water on himself during the annual cold-endurance festival at Kanda Myojin ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

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About 50 worshippers attended a Shinto purification ritual at Uto Shrine on Dec. 28, burning dolls and other sacred items to ...

Later, it turned into an annual Shinto festival to welcome and bid farewell to gods and goddesses ... The tug-of-war between tourism and tradition surfaced shortly before the 2024 event, when the ...