Video. The annual Kanchu Misogi ritual saw around 100 worshippers plunge into icy water at a Tokyo shrine on Sunday.

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Japan will set up a nonpartisan national council for an integrated reform of the country's tax and social security systems within January, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said at her New Year's press ...

The new year brings a fresh start, symbolized in some cultures by the cherubic baby New Year who replaces the old year that ...

Churches closing their doors, mosques with dwindling Friday crowds, and temples turned into museums. Across the globe, something remarkable is happening that would have shocked our grandparents.