ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...

Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a ...

KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / [email protected] Carpenter Brian Schatz of Schatz Construction in Kailua installed a ridge line at the Waka­miya Inari Shrine in the Hawaiian Plantation Village on ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...