Are you one of 40 million travelers expected to visit Japan soon, but want a place less touristy than Tokyo and Kyoto?

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 ...

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

In the Japanese Shinto religion, parts of nature – the ocean, trees, rocks, rivers, mountains, animals, and waterfalls – are believed to be kami (deities), and Japanese devotees pray to them ...

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 ...

They tied the knot in 1993 and have been married for over 30 years. “Hindi kami magarbo. Hindi naman ako masyadong ma-socialize. May Instagram pero when you talk about ‘yung buhay namin ...