Torii Station, Japan – U.S. Army and Air Force teamed up to provide Kadena Air Base Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets with invaluable hands-on experience in a joint-service ...

What a gorgeous red torii gate at the edge of the ocean cliff, I thought, as I walked toward it, my toes savoring and gripping the feel-good sand on Shirahama Ohama beach in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long path up Mount Inari, where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times ...