“Most people would cry out in pain,” says a Japanese man in director Stu Levy’s documentary Pray for Japan. “Our people accept it.” He isn’t speaking of resignation or defeat in the face of a natural ...

Participants pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to wish for overcoming the pandemic Reuters TOKYO – Men wearing traditional loincloths and women dressed in ...

Men and women working in one of Japan’s hundreds of businesses gathered to pray for prosperity for their companies and the country’s economy at the Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan on Jan. 4, 2019.

Sota spent his career in information technology, but retiring from secular work didn’t mean stepping away from serving the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Thousands packed a 1,300-year-old Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo on Wednesday, the first official working day of 2017 in Japan, to pray for good luck and economic success in the new ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Thousands of Japanese packed a Tokyo shrine on Tuesday, the first working day of 2011, to pray for better luck and a rebound in the lagging economy just days after ushering in ...

Fire-walking festival, called hiwatari matsuri in Japanese, at Mt.Takao in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese worshippers prayed for the safety of themselves and their families on Sunday by walking ...

It's hard not to be moved by the words of love, gratitude and resilience spoken by earthquake/tsunami survivors and volunteers in "Pray for Japan." It’s hard not to be moved by the words of love, ...