Shinto is Japan’s indigenous spiritual tradition, but unlike most religions, it has no single founder, sacred text, or strict doctrines. Instead, it revolves around the veneration of Kami ...

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan.

Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at the shrine on ... to have started around 700 years ago during the Nanboku-cho period (1336-1392). The prefectural government has designated the festival ...

Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784. During this period the framework of national government was consolidated and Nara enjoyed great prosperity, emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese ...