A Shinto priest explains the ancient Japanese religion – and the crucial, often forgotten role women played in keeping it alive after World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to send a ...

Visiting a shrine is an enriching experience to have in Japan, but there's one shrine etiquette rule that too many tourists ...

making reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference to the centrality of women ...

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 ...

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.