NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Shinto priest Nobuhiko Ise is not one to forget ... which was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent exposure to the elements, was finally torn ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East ... The company even asked a Shinto priest to conduct a purification ritual and offer prayers for operational safety as it continues to try to resolve the problem.

Shinto is often described as Japan’s indigenous religion—but can it expand beyond Japan? While traditionally tied to Japanese ...

Ise Jingu is the oldest of all Shinto shrines in Japan. About 100 priests and 400 staff servants also keep her company just in case she needs anything. Her house is replaced every twenty years ...

which was cooked overnight over a traditional Japanese open hearth. The fire was lit using a wooden stick rubbed to create friction, a traditional method. Seven Shinto priests, including deputy ...

A Shinto shrine in Japan's western prefecture of Fukuoka has held a traditional ritual of collecting seaweed from the ocean and offering it before an altar to pray for navigational safety and a large ...

on Monday -- the coldest day of the year according to the traditional Japanese calendar. About 20 Shinto priests and others gathered early morning at a place where riverbed water from Mount ...