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

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 Japanese Shinto religion is expressed to have “eight million gods”, or an abundance of gods too diverse to count. Today, Japanese spirituality is a melding of myriad cultures in a uniquely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether it’s reasoning rooted in Shinto beliefs, the samurai ethos of bushido, or simple logic designed for the collective good, thoughtful intention lies at the heart of these quirks. At Deep Japan, ...

followers used items that contained elements of the Shinto and Buddhist religions, such as a hanging scroll of the Virgin Mary wearing a kimono. Prayer books called “orasho,” a word derived ...