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....
As the hum of traffic on the MacArthur Causeway competed with the gurgling sound of fountains, an ancient Japanese Shinto rite was celebrated at the Ichimura Miami-Japan Garden on Sunday.
The Niiname-sai (the Great Festival of Thanksgiving) ritual was staged by the Friends...
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...
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. ...
Hawaii is in danger of losing some of its most historically significant buildings, including a Shinto shrine on Maui, warns the nonprofit Historic Hawai'i Foundation.
The Maui Jinsha Shinto Shrine, dedicated in 1915 but painstakingly moved after World War II, needs more than $800,...
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....
Japanese priest Fr Yuji Sugawara SJ, professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University, outlined the relationship between Shintoism and Christianity in Japan, in an interview with Agenzia Fides.
Fr Yuji said that Shintoism is the oldest traditional religion in Japan, begun by the pre-historic peoples living in central Asia, and has been left...
As with any Westerner working in Japan, it helps to be smart and presentable and to have a grasp of the local language.
But for Kevin Charles, a suave and friendly American living in Tokyo, being "just the man for the job" has involved exactly that. The 32-year-old's regular job is as a...