Hotei, a Japanese god who carries a large sack, has come to be identified with Santa Claus – except that he brings the ...

Japanese mythology and folklore set down in the Kojiki, Nihon shoki, and other ancient chronicles describe Japan’s yaoyorozu no kami—all the diverse, countless gods throughout the country.

The Son of Heaven, the divine Emperor of Japan, was returning from Grand Army ... Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out ...

A fantasy film directed by Takashi Miike follows Tadashi who encounters Japanese mythological beings known as Yokai at a ...

Japanese gods like the deity Kannon were also used to secretly represent the Virgin Mary. "For more than 200 years they had no contact with [foreign] missionaries. So it became a very local ...

This program examines the Japanese matsuri or summer festival perhaps the best elucidation of that countrys ancient polytheism Ceremony footage from Tokyo and surrounding areas illustrates various ...

Japanese firm Panasonic has brought back the "God of Management" in AI avatar form, ready to answer all your business ...

When I think of autumn in Japan, I think of chestnuts, matsutake mushrooms and persimmons. Persimmons were known to the ancient Greeks as the “fruit of the gods”, and with good reason.

Eighty-two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Naomasa Iwasa reflected on how his uncle was posthumously honored as a war god in Japanese propaganda. “It’s important to ...