Christianity’s most serious crisis since Commodore Perry in 1853 opened Japan to missionaries and traders this week faced the Church in Japan—a crisis so serious that U. S. missionaries may soon be ...

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 ...

Interested visitors, Thai and Japanese, are invited to worship at the Shinto Shrine Si Racha at the Semi-Outdoor zone, 1st floor of Central Si Racha in Chon Buri. The recently-unveiled shrine serves ...

Are Shinto and Buddhism truly separate in Japan—or two parts of the same cultural fabric? This deep dive examines how Buddhist philosophy and Shinto kami worship coevolved over 1,500 years. From ...

But the most influential element in Shinto worship, since the days when the early Japanese ceased to be nomadic, has been ancestor worship. Thus was evolved the concept of the Uji-Kami, a clan Kami, ...

Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as Steve Hayes, is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters into ...

Japan’s Nara city is famous for its sacred deer, protected for a millennium as “messengers of the gods” according to Shinto religious tradition, and today also a valuable tourism resource. In recent ...