Fishing communities along the coast of Vietnam are directly impacted by both climate change and the ecological crisis. They pray to the water god, ...

Religion, as one of the central features of human culture, is every bit as varied as humanity itself. While the handful of ...

J apanese tipples sake and shochu—and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them —have been added to UNESCO's ...

Japanese tipples sake and shochu -- and the knowledge and skills honed over centuries to make them -- have been added to ...

Native to China, camellia flowers have a deep symbolic meaning associated with romantic love and devotion. Interestingly, the ...

Best of all, Wakayama City ... spirits of nature – and a three-legged crow Ancient Japan’s indigenous Shinto religion emerged thousands of years ago. Adherents worship sacred spirits who ...

Led by spiritual seeker Homer Bradshaw, The Disciples of Truth had a brief, failed tryst with a religion they understood ...

At the age of twenty-five, she began her college work at Gardner-Webb Junior College where she was voted best- all- around ... are THE TWO MAJOR RELIGIONS OF JAPAN: Shinto, Buddhism, written ...

It’s not all so serious; the show finds levity in ... mystical three-legged ravens (named for the Shinto god) that could turn into humans, ones that built the lands their descendants now ...