Shinto in the ancient period -- The Kami in myth -- The coalescence of early Shinto -- Shinto during the middle and late Heian period, tenth through twelfth centuries -- The esotericization of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Shinto priesthood try to push down a sacred timber from a wheeled platform at the end of Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ...

Miwako Yamamoto, 78, wife of Yukio, the Japanese Master Potter who was one of the initiators of the Tea Garden and Tozan kiln projects, lifts water to bless the ground during a Shinto ceremony. The ...

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It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday at the imperial palace, where Shinto priests prayed for safe and successful construction of a pair of shrines for Emperor Naruhito’s key ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...