Drawing on Shinto, sci-fi and traditional Japanese folk, Kuunatic are one of metal's most fascinating new bands ...

Shinto at a glance. ... However, it is also an unofficial national religion with shrines that draw visitors from across the country. Because ritual rather than belief is at the heart of Shinto, ...

Shinto Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan and throughout history, ... Instead followers draw their deities from nature - worshipping the rocks, trees, wind and sun.

Shinto priests last visited here about 10 years ago, when they met with then-Sephardic Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron. The current delegation, here for just five days, did not meet with either ...

'The number of Shinto shrines in Japan has changed over centuries due to various political and social changes. There were about 190,000 shrines during the early Meiji Era (1867-1912), before a ...

State-sponsored Shintoism was described by Brig. Gen. Ken R. Dyke, chief of MacArthur's civil information and education section, as a religion "manufactured" by ultra nationalists and warlords to ...

TACOMA, Washington, March 18. -- Some of the leaders of religious thought in Japan are endeavoring to choose between Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity as the future religion of the empire.

Though Shinto has no absolute commandments for its adherents aside from living "a simple and harmonious life with nature and people", there are four affirmations of the Shinto spirit. The family ...