This date has been named National Laverbread Day in Wales in Kathleen's honour to celebrate the Welsh seaweed that inspired ...

Shinto is often described as Japan’s indigenous religion—but can it expand beyond Japan? While traditionally tied to Japanese culture, shrines, and national identity, modern practitioners argue that ...

NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Shinto priest Nobuhiko Ise is not one to forget his roots in Fukushima Prefecture, where the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster triggered a nuclear catastrophe that ...

Religious ceremonies such as a ceremony to expel evil spirits and other prayers were held by a Shinto priest. During the ceremony to purify the construction site, Chair Hisano used a shovel to ...

Kiyoshi Miyasaka, the chief priest of Yatsurugi Shrine ... The ancient records don’t give a name, and Shinto is a form of animism that believes in countless gods that lie behind the forces ...

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.

The Keta Shinto shrine in Hakui City ... a procession led by a horse started from the shrine. About 30 priests and local youth took part to pray for the recovery from a massive quake that hit ...

The ema are then offered to the deities by the Shinto priests the next morning. As I stood at the foot of the tree’s sturdy trunk and read through the hopes and desires of strangers from around ...

TOKYO – A Japanese lawmaker on March 19 slammed the latest video game in the hit “Assassin’s Creed” series, complaining that a samurai character destroys the interior of a Shinto shrine.