This article looks at Shinto worship, which can take place in the home or in shrines. Shinto worship is highly ritualised, and follows strict conventions of protocol, order and control. It can take ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A ceremony that began with a Shinto blessing signaled the completion Friday of a combined heat and power plant designed to give this airlift hub in western Tokyo energy ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — An overgrown jungle thicket in the middle of this sprawling base has been reborn. For years, a Shinto prayer site stood virtually inaccessible in a wooded area just off ...

At the Gou Jinja Shinto Shrine, fans of Japanese figures skaters are praying for their victory at the PyeongChang Olympics. In Japan, it is tradition to pray for athletes, “sporting gods”, ahead of ...

Small wooden plaques used to express wishes to gods have been hung up at Shinto shrines for centuries. But in the age of social media, some people are opting to cover what they have written using a ...

In Japan, it’s customary to start off the new year be going to a Shinto shrine to pray for good fortune in the new year. While many are thought to convey a vague blessing of overall prosperity, some ...

We had a funeral for Kiko Iho Yao a couple of weeks ago. She was an 88-year-old woman from Japan who died in our community. Like most Japanese she followed Shinto, the traditional devotion to ...

American Kit Cox, 35, works as an electrical engineer and enjoys biking and playing piano. But what some might consider surprising about Cox, who was raised as Methodist, is that she practices the ...