If you pray for love in Izumo, there's a good chance you'll be heard. Every year, eight million gods gather in this seaside ...

Dragon Ball Daima drops some new lore with Namekians, bringing them closer to Toriyama's original intentions of the race.

While Spain's headline trail now attracts up to half a million pilgrims a year, its twin is often uncrowded and offers a peaceful route through forests and mountain scenery ...

In Japanese folklore, the kitsune is a fox spirit that bewitches humans, a servant of the Shinto god Inari, the patron kami ...

Sake has been around for a long time, like really long. And there are some interesting fermentation techniques that helped shape the sake we drink today.

Shinto is often described as the “soul of Japan ... we walk down the gravel pathway (the crunching alerts the gods or kami to your presence) to the shrine, as it is November 15 and Shichi ...

Followers of Shintoism, Japan’s indigenous religion, worship Kami – gods believed to inhabit ... and witnessing a wedding ceremony at a Shinto shrine. Perhaps the most endearing moment came ...

It is here that Japan’s wellness trend took off roughly 3000 years ago with revered hot springs featured in ancient texts Kojiki – some parts considered sacred texts of the Shinto religion ...