Torii gates are often found at the entrance to Shinto shrines that symbolize the transition from the everyday world to the sacred. The incident comes as a surge of tourists have visited Japan in ...

Shinto shrines abound in Japan, and most Japanese take part in one or another Shinto ceremony over the course of a year. Although Shinto is not a missionary religion, Shinto now has an international ...

where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times more staggered, the gates are all engraved with the names of Shinto devotees who donated them. It takes about three hours to make the ...

Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a ...

The earthquake and tsunami had damaged over 4,000 Shinto shrines, small and large, and all had at least one Torii gate. To make things even harder, the coastal region still looked as if the ...

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.