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Takeaways from AP's report on Japan's most sacred shrine, rebuilt every 20 years for a millennium

Posted 9/23/25

Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch. The massive, $390 million demolition and construction job …

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