Only in the final decade of its 50-year occupation of Taiwan did Japan make a serious effort to introduce the Shinto religion to its colony. After the launch in 1937 of the Kominka Movement — an ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, the Bill of Rights, comprising the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, took effect. In 1890, Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull was killed in ...

In the second of a two-part series, this programme look at the links between Shinto, Japan's military past and the so-called 'new-right transformation of Japan'. On August 15, Japan will commemorate ...

The festival is a rare combination of Buddhist and Shinto traditions, as a shrine and temple jointly run it. The festivities center around the 18 four-meter-tall floats known as Hikiyama. Each float ...

Though Shinto has no absolute commandments for its adherents aside from living "a simple and harmonious life with nature and people", there are four affirmations of the Shinto spirit. The family is ...

Times have changed since the late 1800s, when the Japanese emperor wielded supreme power as head of the country’s Shinto religion – whipping up fierce nationalism and resistance to Western colonial ...

Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Shintoism is the oldest traditional religion in Japan, begun by the pre-historic peoples living in central Asia, and has been left as it is today after a long co-existence ...

Under the double-barred gateposts, by the entrance to the bow-backed bridge, a solitary figure was waiting. He was white-robed and bare-headed. He was about to make history. The Shinto priest bowed ...