Japan’s Indigenous religion of Shinto is largely rooted in animism ... surfaced in the investigations of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination last year, adding to the public ...

A Shinto priest explains the ancient Japanese religion – and the crucial, often forgotten role women played in keeping it alive after World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to send a ...

Before work on renovations ended, it is said that an exorcism was performed by a Shinto priest who cleansed the mansion of lingering spirits. The longest-serving prime minister of Japan ...