Netflix's new animated film The Summit of the Gods is the kind of production that at first seems like it should be in Japanese. The film is based on a Japanese novel and its manga adaptation of the ...

With its bullet trains; electronic toilets that warm, clean and dry; and hyper-efficient delivery systems that bring online orders to the doorstep within hours, it’s easy to forget that Japan is also ...

Polytheism is not likely to be understood fully until it has been investigated at individual and small group levels. In this study of Japanese religious belief, hierarchical clustering and ...

This video explains the origins of Japanese mythology through the stories of its main gods, including Izanagi, Izanami, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo. It shows how ancient myths describe the ...