Dec. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, the Bill of Rights, comprising the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, took effect. In 1890, Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull was killed in ...

TOKYO -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight ordered the Japanese government to withdraw its sponsorship and financial support from state Shintoism which embraces the belief that the emperor is a god ...

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...

The festival is a rare combination of Buddhist and Shinto traditions, as a shrine and temple jointly run it. The festivities center around the 18 four-meter-tall floats known as Hikiyama. Each float ...

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Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Shintoism is the oldest traditional religion in Japan, begun by the pre-historic peoples living in central Asia, and has been left as it is today after a long co-existence ...

Times have changed since the late 1800s, when the Japanese emperor wielded supreme power as head of the country’s Shinto religion – whipping up fierce nationalism and resistance to Western colonial ...