Author: James Coffey

Source: The Tampa Bay Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/religious-spiritual-diversity-in-tampa-bay/shinto-japan-s-oldest-religion

While driving around the Tampa Bay area, you may have spotted the picturesque wooden arches that are turning up in neighborhoods and dotting the countryside. These are signs of a growing spiritual influence around the Bay area, that of Japanese Shinto....

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Japan Times

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100121a3.html

It is unconstitutional for a municipal government to offer city-owned land without charge for the site of a Shinto shrine, the Supreme Courtsaid Wednesday.

The ruling by the top court's Grand Bench upheld the contention of the plaintiffs, reportedly two local residents, that the municipal government of Sunagawa, Hokkaido, violated...

Author: Lehia Apana

Source: The Maui News

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/513816.html

Hawaii is known as the endangered species capital of the world, and now there's something else that's in danger of being lost forever. It doesn't fly in our tropical skies, grow in our rain forests or swim beneath our ocean, but the nearly century-old Maui Jinsha Shinto Shrine is facing its own kind of battle as it struggles to survive.
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Author: Staff Writer

Source: Mainichi Daily News

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080602p2a00m0na009000c.html

The "Christ Festival," marking a town which claims to be the location where Jesus Christ spent the rest of his life after avoiding crucifixion, was held over the weekend.

Shingo's association with Christ began in the 1930s with the discovery there of a letter claiming to contain the last testament of Christ....