What it’s like to join a Japanese festival and carry a mikoshi around Tokyo for a day
By Oona McGee, SoraNews24 June 16, 2019
Japanese festivals occur throughout the year around the country, bringing people and communities together to pray
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Security guards at Japanese shrine stand out with anime-like uniforms for New Year
By Dale Roll, SoraNews24 (Japan Today Jan. 14, 2017)
Japan requires uniforms for everything. High school uniforms, of course, are the most famous, but spend
All over the news this week has been the murder of the chief priest at a Tokyo shrine named Tomioka Hachiman-gu. The female head priest was apparently cut down by her sword-wielding brother, who afterwards killed his accomplice lover and … Read the rest
“Cat shrine” status causing problems for Japan’s millennium-old Izumoiwai Shrine
Green Shinto has covered the current boom in ‘power spots’ on several occasions, and an overview of how, when and why it developed can be found in a previous posting here. Tokyo Daijingu is Kanto’s most famous example, though … Read the rest
‘Japan, the Land of the Kami as Perceived by Lafcadio Hearn’ was the title of the Lecture Event put on at Meiji Jingu to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Irish-Japanese diplomatic relations. The Japanese for the event was ‘Koizumi Yakumo … Read the rest
On June 3 there was a major event at Meiji Jingu to celebrate 60 years of Irish-Japanese diplomatic relations. It consisted of an introductory talk by the Irish Ambassador followed by two lectures by eminent Hearn scholars. Since one of … Read the rest