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 ...

The Japanese Shinto religion is expressed to have “eight million gods”, or an abundance of gods too diverse to count. Today, Japanese spirituality is a melding of myriad cultures in a uniquely ...

Japanese flock to Buddhist Bon dances and Shinto-related festivals involving “mikoshi,” or portable shrines. “In Japan, faith is not considered an important element of religion, unlike ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi ... with strong roots in Japan's traditional Shinto religion. But when the liquor began to be mass produced ...

Ise Jingu is the oldest of all Shinto shrines in Japan ... a lot of sea food like lobsters and oysters and drinks plenty of Japanese rice wine famously known as ‘sake.’ Most of the sake ...

A Shinto priest explains the ancient Japanese religion – and the crucial, often forgotten role women played in keeping it alive after World War II.

The holy Japanese shinto temple strongly recalls the ancient ... the Ethiopian Jews are the descendants of one of the ten tribes, as their religion is an ancient form of biblical Judaism.

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 ...

In Japanese culture, fire represents both destruction and renewal. The Kurama Fire Festival, held annually on Oct. 22 in Kyoto, is a Shinto ritual ... reflect those of Religion News Service.) ...

Experience the rich religious and cultural life of Japan! Students will visit temples, shrines, lay Buddhist movements and museums, and attend lectures by Dr. Stephen Covell, Japanese scholars and ...

Not only are women able to take practical roles within the rituals of the religion, but the chief deity within Shinto is female. She contrasts this with beliefs about the role of women in China ...