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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...