Visiting a Shinto shrine requires more than quiet admiration—it calls for an understanding of its rituals, from purifying ...

Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi explains why Japan’s indigenous religion lacks a transcendent notion of God. Christianity Today speaks with Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the International Mission ...

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Several Shinto priests from the renowned Meiji Jingu Shrine toured this installation Thursday as part of an ongoing effort to increase interfaith dialogue with the unit ministry ...

Japanese believers must be wary of falling into syncretism again, evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi warns. Christianity Today interviews Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the International Mission ...

India, Sept. 18 -- If your Japan holiday package includes words like "cultural immersion" or "a window into the local way of life", it had better include a traditional festival or matsuri. From the ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

With a vote on the next prime minister set for Tuesday, the new LDP president apparently took into account the possibility ...

Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Sanae Takaichi, president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, made a "tamagushi " ritual ...