Shinto can't be separated from Japan and the Japanese, but in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries Shinto became an established state religion, inextricably linked to the cause of ...

Shinto, once an unwritten tradition rooted in nature, shrines, and ancestral worship, wasn’t always classified as a “religion.” This video traces how Japan’s native spiritual practice was reshaped ...

Shinto is one of Japan’s two major religions, along with Buddhism. Like many religious traditions, Shinto can have different meanings for people. For some, it is the central faith of the ...

Shinto religion has long been entangled with Japan’s politics. ... formed an occupation government in Japan and separated all of Shinto from the postwar state by categorizing it as religion.

Shinto is often described as Japan’s indigenous religion—but can it expand beyond Japan? While traditionally tied to Japanese culture, shrines, and national identity, modern practitioners ...

In my study of violence in the Asian religions, I was surprised to learn that it was militant Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma and Japan that were responsible for ...

In many places, Shinto and Buddhism, with their associated structures, shrines and temples respectively, share the same sacred grounds. Today, there are about 80,000 shrines and 77,000 temples in ...

The Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against ...

A 2019 report by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs counted 88.9 million practitioners of Shinto, with Buddhism running a close second (84.8 million) and Christianity a distant third (1.9 million).