Early in “Your Name,” the anime blockbuster that’s conquered Japan, China, and the rest of Asia, a high-school girl named Mitsuha performs a ritual dance at her family’s Shinto shrine.

And Kaitlyn’s research shows that some Shinto practitioners gravitate toward anime that prominently feature real-world Shinto shrines and rituals, participating in a sort of “virtual ...

In many places, Shinto and Buddhism, with their associated structures, shrines and temples respectively, share the same sacred grounds. Today, there are about 80,000 shrines and 77,000 temples in ...

The Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America, the largest Shinto shrine on the U.S. mainland, is hidden away on 25 acres outside Granite Falls. Which, at first, seems a little strange.

When exploring Kyoto, head to an iconic neighborhood in the heart of the city, boasting iconic art museums and a Shinto ...

Shinto, the Indigenous faith of the Japanese people, is popular in Japan but seemingly rare in the U.S. So what is a Shinto shrine doing in Granite Falls?

SUZU, Ishikawa Prefecture--Despite the absence of the event’s usual crowd, a Shinto shrine here held its first festival on March 25 since the Noto Peninsula earthquake destroyed its main hall.

Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, is located in that district. It has often been at the center of an ongoing international controversy because of the 14 Class-A war criminals from ...

The Meiji shrine is a Shinto shrine that “was established in 1920, to commemorate the virtue of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken who took the initiative to make a foundation of modernized Japan ...

Jinja (shrines) are everywhere in Japan—more than 100,000! They’re not hard to spot. The entryway to a shrine is marked by a large torii (gate). ... History, culture and words behind Shinto shrines in ...