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 ...

Slide yourself into the Shinto atmosphere: the gentle clapping, the quiet, the lack of hurry, the moment spent asking yourself (and the gods) what you hope for in life. Shintoism is a tolerant affair.

If you ask someone about Christianity, Islam or Judaism most people will have some knowledge of them. Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism similarly but ask about Shinto and most people will know very ...

The political campaigns of these Shinto groups can be situated in a larger context of the rise of neonationalism in contemporary Japanese society. Given the relationship of Japanese politicians to the ...