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

Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan's most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt ...

Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years.