A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of ...

A long-standing year-end ritual held at Atago Shrine, one of Fukuoka’s most revered spiritual sites, the “Dai Saito Gomaku” ...

London — Sumo's biggest international showcase in history rocked London this week, spotlighting more than 40 wrestlers across 100 bouts with blistering palm thrusts, stunning face slaps and an ...

Colliding with the force of a few tons and sending clay into the air, 330-pound Hoshoryu Tomokatsu seized the blue silk belt — the mawashi — of 420-pound Onosato Daiki. Momentum carried the heavier ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...

HIGASHIKAWA, Hokkaido -- A Shinto ritual to express gratitude for the autumn harvest was held Sept. 2 at a Hokkaido Shrine-designated sacred rice field here. The Hokkaido town of Higashikawa, located ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi shares how Shinto influenced the development of emperor worship and the ways Christians responded. Christianity Today interviews Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the ...

Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi explains why Japan’s indigenous religion lacks a transcendent notion of God. Christianity Today speaks with Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the International Mission ...

Shinto prayers are always for material blessings. That faith recognizes no moral or spiritual needs for its followers, who are supposed to obey the dictates of their own hearts, and can require no ...

Shinto Nawafil Timings - Find updated nawafil timing of Tahajjud, Ishraq, Chast and Awwabin. Get daily updated nawafil Prayer timing in Shinto, Japan at Hamariweb.com. Get the details of today's 4 ...

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 ...