YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A ceremony that began with a Shinto blessing signaled the completion Friday of a combined heat and power plant designed to give this airlift hub in western Tokyo energy ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — An overgrown jungle thicket in the middle of this sprawling base has been reborn. For years, a Shinto prayer site stood virtually inaccessible in a wooded area just off ...

American Kit Cox, 35, works as an electrical engineer and enjoys biking and playing piano. But what some might consider surprising about Cox, who was raised as Methodist, is that she practices the ...

Shinto practitioner Michelle Sato of Philomath regularly says morning prayers by the Willamette River. The headband reads "Kami Kaze" or "Divine Wind" in reference to an storm that saved ancient Japan ...

In Japan, it’s customary to start off the new year be going to a Shinto shrine to pray for good fortune in the new year. While many are thought to convey a vague blessing of overall prosperity, some ...

Dozens of worshippers wearing only loincloths and bathrobes with headbands and facemasks plunged themselves into icy waters as part of a traditional ritual in Tokyo on Sunday, in which they also ...

A religion with no founder, no scriptures and only a loosely organised priesthood By Jeffrey Somers Shinto is one of the oldest religions in the world. Related to some of the religions of Korea, ...