Press Run has items this week about the start of weekly fish fries at Sts. Constantine and Helen in Cleveland Heights; the ...

Shikkoku,” which uses the character for “lacquer” and means “jet black,” is the perfect word to describe the deep and ...

In Japanese folklore, the kitsune is a fox spirit that bewitches humans, a servant of the Shinto god Inari, the patron kami ...

Shinto is often described as Japan’s indigenous religion—but can it expand beyond Japan? While traditionally tied to Japanese culture, shrines, and national identity, modern practitioners argue that ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto), this one is pretty special. Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari ...

A verdict by Japan’s top court in a case involving a group of South Koreans who sought to have their relatives’ names removed from the highly controversial Yasukuni shrine has reopened wounds ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A shrine parishioner throws icy cold water on himself during the annual cold-endurance festival at Kanda ...

A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from the night of Jan. 14 to early next morning, coinciding with the traditional lunar calendar New ...