The Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu will offer blessings to New Year’s revelers — and their pets, if they so choose — starting at midnight through 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 1. The Shinto temple is ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) - A tradition more than a century old of ushering in the new year with a blessing continues despite the rain and the coronavirus. A couple of thousand people on Oahu braved the rain ...

TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Japan's Shinto belief system is not an organized religion, but rather a collection of beliefs and practices centered around the natural world and ancestry. Though it was originally not an image−based ...

The largest and most active Shinto shrine in the mainland United States, and arguably the North American continent, is not in Seattle. Nor is it in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose or any other ...

In a mountain town, schoolboys in traditional loincloths keep up a 300-year tradition. The hadaka matsuri festivals, rooted in Shinto tradition,... Japanese 'Naked' Festivals Keep Centuries-Old ...

Got plans for the new year? On December 31 just before midnight, you can line up to get a good luck blessing at a Nuuanu Shinto temple. Every year, many people and dozens of pets get a traditional ...