A film about how cats and humans coexist at a Japanese shrine is enchanting international audiences. Set in a Shinto shrine, ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...

A group calling itself “Shinto LGBTQ plus Liaison Council” posted a statement to this effect on Twitter on Nov. 14. A shrine worker in the Kansai region who identifies as non-binary played a ...

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto), this one is pretty special ... deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back to the eighth century ...

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the ... ritual took place at Suwa Taisha's Shimosha Harumiya shrine in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, where this year's prediction ...

The Keta Shinto shrine in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture, has held the Heikokusai festival for more than 500 years based on a legend that Okuninushi-no-mikoto ruled Noto. The shrine is dedicated ...