This article looks at the relationship between Shinto and the cause of Japanese nationalism. Shinto can't be separated from Japan and the Japanese, but in the late 19th and first half of the 20th ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — A Shinto shrine that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking his Group of Seven counterparts to visit on Thursday is no ordinary shrine. The emperor of Japan was the head priest ...

In this Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, photo, participants clad in traditional happi coats put lanterns on floats before it goes to the town central square during the Chichibu Night Festival in Chichibu, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Akihito performed the ‘Shinetsu no Gi’ ritual at Ise Shrine in western Japan as part of the succession process. TOKYO (AP) — Emperor Akihito prayed at a Japanese shrine Thursday (April 18 ...

State Shinto paid a great compliment to his trainer John Sadler, the former leading Flemington handler, when he dominated ever yard in the straight to win Thursday's Umm El Dummin Prep. State Shinto ...

CHICHIBU, JapanCHICHIBU, Japan — As fireworks light up the winter night, scores of men, women and teenagers crying “washoi, washoi” haul the last of six towering, lantern-covered floats up a small ...