Japan’s Indigenous religion of Shinto is largely rooted in animism, which believes there are thousands of “kami,” or spirits, inhabiting nature. It’s closely linked to the country’s ...

And she was also its first female executive! Station Master Tama passed away in June, 2015. Over 3,000 people attended a Shinto funeral held in her honour at the station, where she became a Shinto ...

The indigenous religiosity of Japan has come to be known as Shinto, and has always been closely tied to the political life of the Japanese as well as to other religious traditions. Shinto shrines ...

The roots of Shinto lie in people feeling the presence of kami in nature and thereby creating rituals. No formal shrines were built on Okinoshima, called the island where God resides. Instead ...