This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

Lumping his 31 feats together, Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed nearly 90,000 feet above sea level on the famous peak — about 170 ...

The stories also demonstrate many parallels between human beings and the kami. In the beginning, when the universe was created from the pre-existing chaos a number of kami ('gods' in this context ...

Learn how to talk about religion in Japanese with practical vocabulary, phrases and cultural tips. Includes real-life ...

IS Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Orion staff is celebrating by doing what we do best: sharing ...

Japan's laws allow the use of copyrighted content to train AI models. Even though artists are worried for their future, some of the country's cultural and social aspects might make it easier to accept ...

Built in accordance with the core principles of the Shinto religion ... and Ukanomitama no Kami, the goddess of prosperity and abundance. Visitors can come to seek blessings for good fortune ...

Shinto is Japan’s indigenous spiritual tradition, but unlike most religions, it has no single founder, sacred text, or strict doctrines. Instead, it revolves around the veneration of Kami ...

This deep dive examines how Buddhist philosophy and Shinto kami worship coevolved over 1,500 years. From Prince Shōtoku’s Buddhist reforms to the honji suijaku doctrine and the later ...

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