Two female priests have been appointed at a shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the first time in its history.

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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 ...

on Monday -- the coldest day of the year according to the traditional Japanese calendar. About 20 Shinto priests and others gathered early morning at a place where riverbed water from Mount ...

Mr. Kawaguchi spent part of 1900, all 1901, and part of 1902 in Tibet—three years. A child in Japan, if born on December 31, begins his second year on January 1, and on the succeeding New Year's ...

which was cooked overnight over a traditional Japanese open hearth. The fire was lit using a wooden stick rubbed to create friction, a traditional method. Seven Shinto priests, including deputy ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ... Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify ... ritual at the Kanda ...

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