Priests began visiting Shikoku after his death ... "In the past, some of the sacred sites were Shinto shrines, and not all of the present-day 88 sites – which are now temples – belong to ...

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 ...

The company even asked a Shinto priest to conduct a purification ritual and offer prayers for operational safety as it continues to try to resolve the problem. The phenomenon surfaced around late ...

The Japanese imperial family are believed to descend from the first Shinto gods, and with every generation one royal is chosen as the high priest of Ise, with its various shrines, sacred rivers ...

The fire was lit using a wooden stick rubbed to create friction, a traditional method. Seven Shinto priests, including deputy chief priest Masuhiro Murakami, oversaw the cooking process while ...

A Shinto shrine in Japan's western prefecture ... The event is said to have originated more than 1,800 years ago. On Wednesday, priests wearing traditional costumes headed to the sea before ...

About 20 Shinto priests and others gathered early morning at a place where riverbed water from Mount Hakusan was accumulated. They were wearing white loincloths or white costumes. All the ...

the consideration of the Uniform Holy Mass as a basic qualification for the appointment of priests, action against nuns who engaged in anti-Church activities, the imposition of a ban on faithful ...

After graduating from the Faculty of Shinto Studies at Kokugakuin University, the two women worked at the shrine as miko and clerical workers and were only appointed as priests in June. They currently ...