Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi explains why Japan's indigenous religion lacks a transcendent notion of God.

Christianity Today interviews Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the International Mission Center at Tokyo Christian University, on the beginnings of a Christian movement that sought to meld Shinto with ...

A Shinto priest performs a ritual at an altar. Leo Laporte/flickr, CC BY-NC-SAAmerican Kit Cox, 35, works as an electrical engineer and enjoys biking and playing piano. But what some might ...

In Shintoism, she is also the sun goddess and one of the biggest deities of the religion, with her shrine being one of the holiest sites in the country, the Grand Shrine of Ise.

Yet somehow Abe’s deep connections with Shinto religion rarely make the news. Shinto has long been a part of Abe’s politics and continues to be so for the LDP. What is Shinto?

Shinto is the native religious tradition of Japan. I think it's easy to see visual signs of it throughout Japan, from 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.

Now Shrine Shinto is beginning the metamorphosis from a state cult of patriotism to a fully developed religion. After 1945, most of the shrines incorporated as religious bodies and some 86,000 of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Emperor Akihito prayed at a Japanese shrine Thursday (April 18) in a ritual to report his upcoming abdication to the Shinto gods. The 85-year-old emperor will retire on April 30 in ...

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.