Shintō

Shinto: A Sign of Tampa Bay's Cultural Diversity

January 11, 2011

Author: James Coffey

Source: The Tampa Bay Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/religious-spiritual-diversity-in-tampa-bay/shinto-japan-s-oldest-religion

While driving around the Tampa Bay area, you may have spotted the picturesque wooden arches that are turning up in neighborhoods and dotting the countryside. These are signs of a growing spiritual influence around the Bay area, that of Japanese Shinto....

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Free Land for Shrine Ruled Unconstitutional

January 21, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Japan Times

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100121a3.html

It is unconstitutional for a municipal government to offer city-owned land without charge for the site of a Shinto shrine, the Supreme Courtsaid Wednesday.

The ruling by the top court's Grand Bench upheld the contention of the plaintiffs, reportedly two local residents, that the municipal government of Sunagawa, Hokkaido, violated...

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Buddhists to Mark New Year With Rituals

December 26, 2009

Author: Mary Adamski

Source: Honolulu Star Bulletin

http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20091226_buddhists_to_mark_new_year_with_rituals.html

The new year will be greeted with quiet spiritual rituals in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines Thursday night.

Buddhists will strike temple bells 108 times at midnight in a rite of reflection about leaving the bad behind and moving forward with hope for the...

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Historic Temple On Borrowed Time

January 18, 2009

Author: Lehia Apana

Source: The Maui News

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/513816.html

Hawaii is known as the endangered species capital of the world, and now there's something else that's in danger of being lost forever. It doesn't fly in our tropical skies, grow in our rain forests or swim beneath our ocean, but the nearly century-old Maui Jinsha Shinto Shrine is facing its own kind of battle as it struggles to survive.
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