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Japanese critics say the video game from French developer Ubisoft distorts history and disrespects sacred sites.

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An annual spring Shinto festival has started at a shrine near Lake Biwa in Japan's western prefecture of Shiga.

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A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) ...