Shinto shrines abound in Japan, and most Japanese take part in one or another Shinto ceremony over the course of a year. Although Shinto is not a missionary religion, Shinto now has an international ...

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.

Like the U.S. suburban church, the well-equipped Shinto shrine offers a variety of family services; members of the association now run 97 kindergartens and 89 nurseries. In its postwar comeback ...

Defense Ministry officials are investigating whether members of the Self-Defense Forces ... investigating aircraft accidents visited the Shinto shrine on Jan. 9. A 1974 notice released in the ...

The 65-year-old admitted he “wrote his family members’ names” on the pillar ... CNN reported. The Meiji shrine is a Shinto shrine that “was established in 1920, to commemorate the virtue ...

This time we introduce "Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble," which presents the recovery project of Aso Jinja, a Shinto shrine destroyed in the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016.

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.