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 ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

Japanese cults often draw from ancient religious and philosophical traditions that have shaped the country’s history. Shinto, the indigenous religion, remained central to Japanese culture even after ...

Large shares in many middle-income countries say following the historically predominant religion is key to "true" national ...

Era named "Yayoi" after the place in Tokyo where wheel-turned pottery was found. In Shinto, Japan's oldest religion, people identify kami (divine forces) in nature and in such human virtues as loyalty ...

For instance, Japanese Shinto religion emphasises the spiritual in either living things (trees) or natural phenomena — some may even acknowledge that a clothes washing machine has a soul and you ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanes ...

In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s overtourism problem couldn’t be simpler ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...