A Shinto priest performed purification rights on the land where the construction work is set to start, invoking blessings for a successful project at the groundbreaking ceremony for two new start ...

NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Shinto priest Nobuhiko Ise is not one to forget his roots in Fukushima Prefecture, where the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster triggered a nuclear catastrophe that ...

My initial encounter with the head priest of Suwa Shrine occurred in a rather unlikely place. I was having dinner at Nagasaki’s only Indian restaurant and my companion, a resident of the city for ...

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from ...

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 ...

People have soaked in frigid water in Ishikawa Prefecture to pray for a healthy year and reconstruction of areas hit by last ...

There are some 80,000 shrines, and about as many Shinto priests, in Japan but female priests make up only a tiny fraction of the number. About 80% of Japan's population practise some form of Shinto.

“People have a feeling of being protected by this burial site,” says Morihide Naka, Shinto priest of the Konda Hachimangu shrine that conducts the rite, in which about 1,000 locals participate.