A unique Shinto ritual predicting the fortune of the year based on mold growth on okayu rice porridge was held at Chiriku ...

Unlike in most nations, where janitors or custodians clean, Japanese students personally clean their classrooms, corridors, ...

Many have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, ...

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 ...

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.