YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A ceremony that began with a Shinto blessing signaled the completion Friday of a combined heat and power plant designed to give this airlift hub in western Tokyo energy ...

Small wooden plaques used to express wishes to gods have been hung up at Shinto shrines for centuries. But in the age of social media, some people are opting to cover what they have written using a ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — An overgrown jungle thicket in the middle of this sprawling base has been reborn. For years, a Shinto prayer site stood virtually inaccessible in a wooded area just off ...

We had a funeral for Kiko Iho Yao a couple of weeks ago. She was an 88-year-old woman from Japan who died in our community. Like most Japanese she followed Shinto, the traditional devotion to ...

Shinto practitioner Michelle Sato of Philomath regularly says morning prayers by the Willamette River. The headband reads "Kami Kaze" or "Divine Wind" in reference to an storm that saved ancient Japan ...

Dozens of worshippers wearing only loincloths and bathrobes with headbands and facemasks plunged themselves into icy waters as part of a traditional ritual in Tokyo on Sunday, in which they also ...

A religion with no founder, no scriptures and only a loosely organised priesthood By Jeffrey Somers Shinto is one of the oldest religions in the world. Related to some of the religions of Korea, ...