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 became the official state religion of Japan, and many shrines were supported by state funding. However, this financial aid was short-lived, ...

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 is Japan's indigenous religion that goes back centuries. It is an animism that believes there are thousands of kami, or spirits, inhabiting nature, such as forests, rivers and mountains.

Shintō and the State, 1868–1988 is the second volume in the series “Studies in Church and State” sponsored by the Project on Church and State at Princeton University and funded by the Lilly Endowment.

"State Shinto was rejected as a state religion after the war, but some of that sentiment remains today," he said. "It has a large influence in politics." ...

2001-09-23 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo-- Dressed smartly in a black skirt and a turquoise silk shirt with wide lapels, Yuka Sugimoto receives visitors in a sleek suite of offices these days, handing them a ...

“State Shinto was rejected as a state religion after the war, but some of that sentiment remains today,” he said. "It has a large influence in politics. ...