For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Faithfuls and tourists gathered around a pool at the Ise Jingu shrine to cleanse ...

Shiroikaze circle club was an important role for me during my stay in Japan. Thank to this circle I met a lot of great people ...

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 ...

To help me answer my curiosity, I asked my local Shinto expert and naturalized Japanese, David Chart. Life Where I'm From Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 ...

Members of sexual minorities working at Shinto shrines took to social media ... Gakuin University in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan. “People are not born homosexual. It is an acquired ...

Most funerals in Japan are held in a Buddhist style. Japan’s Indigenous religion of Shinto is largely rooted in animism, which believes there are thousands of “kami,” or spirits, inhabiting ...

This short film offers an introduction to Shinto, making reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes ...

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan. The Keta Shinto shrine in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture ...