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Author: Danielle Demetriou Source: The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/17/wjapan1… As with any Westerner working in Japan, it helps to be smart and presentable and to have a grasp of the local language. But for...

Author: Staff Writer Source: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7045699.stm Hundreds of police officers have raided a Japanese religious sect and arrested 20 people over a fatal attack on one of its members, according to reports...

Author: Staff Writer Source: Japan News Reveiw http://www.japannewsreview.com/entertainment/movies/20071007page_id=2316 Promotional trailers, posters and leaflets for the Japanese movie “Sukiyaki Western: Django” were altered after Shinto shrine keepers...

Author: Bryce S. Dubee Source: Stars and Stripes http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55446&archive=t… YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Shuffling slowly through crowded Fussa streets in 90-degree heat while shouldering a several-hundred-pound...

Author: Staff Writer Source: Daily Yomiuri Wire Service: AP http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20070705TDY16001.htm Shinto priest Mitsutaka Inui provided a rare glimpse into various aspects of the nation's indigenous religion at an English...

Source: The Honolulu Advertiser http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jul/06/br/br1062547839.h… For centuries, the Japanese have observed the religious tradition of Chinowa Kuguri by stepping through a chinowa, a large ring made of reeds to...

Author: Richard Halloran Source: Taipei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/05/19/20033615… With an assist from the Internet, Shinto -- the ancient religion of Japan -- is experiencing a mild upturn in fervor among the Japanese...

Source: PR News Now/SALDEF http://www.prnewsnow.com/PR%20News%20Releases/Legal%20And%20Law/Georgia… Earlier this month, the Sikh American Legal...

Author: Roseanne Pereira Source: Minnesota Public Radio http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/04/03/sikhfilm/ St. Paul, Minn. -- In September 2001, Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college junior, studying religion and international affairs. She...

Author: Wieland Wagner Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,474092,00.html Until the end of World War II, Shinto was the state religion in Japan. Even today, pilgrims still throng to the 80,000 shrines, praying for the...