“If there is a god in water, a god in rice, a god in sake, then a sakagura is like a shrine,” Kirshner writes, drawing a line between the animism of Shinto, Japan’s indigenous ...

Like Toriyama’s yokai encyclopedias, the films and TV shows were entertainment, to be sure, but also an expression of Japan’s lingering animism. “God,” Yoshida said, for want of a better ...

Originally a 1988 Japanese Studio Ghibli animated film, now a West End production blending puppetry, fantasy, and animism, The Standard is taking you behind the curtain of the Olivier award-winning ...

Originally a 1988 Japanese Studio Ghibli animated film, now a West End production blending puppetry, fantasy, and animism, The Standard is taking you behind the curtain of the Olivier award ...

The predominant religion in much of West Africa, it’s rooted in animism, and the belief that ... Don’t get us wrong – we’re huge fans of Japanese hotspots such as Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

Hayakawa specifically chose to set the story in 1987, during Japan’s economic bubble period, seeing parallels with contemporary society. “Back then, Japan’s economy was growing and growing.

BROOKFIELD — Fans of sushi, hibachi, teriyaki and other Japanese dishes will be happy to learn that a family-owned restaurant called Aki Japanese Cuisine has just opened a new location in ...