Japan

2011-03-17	Tokyo governor apologises for calling tsunami ‘divine punishment’
2007-12-17	Rapping monks, nuns hit catwalk
2005-11-02	Conservatives fight secular war memorial
2005-10-27	Japan lawmakers call for alternative to Yasukuni shrine
2005-10-03	Court condemns Koizumi’s visits to Tokyo shrine
2005-09-01	Political pragmatism guides Japan Buddhist sect
2005-02-19	Japan’s native Shinto religion has plenty of gods but few followers
2005-01-10	Japan: Don’t blame God for tsunami
2005-01-03	Japan: Cult calls off hot water training after death
2004-12-21	Japan: What does Christmas mean to you?
2004-11-24	Japan: Shinto struggling to adapt
2004-08-05	Japan: Plans for national cemetery raise church and state issues
2004-06-03	Japan: Sex scandal brings gob-smacked shrine to its knees
2004-05-14	Japan: Priests block the sale of “Snot from the nose of the Great
2004-04-07	Japan: PM’s visit to shrine was illegal
2004-02-17	Police raid Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo
2003-09-18	Japanese court upholds death sentence for Aum cult ‘combatant’ in 1994 nerve gas attack
2003-09-01	Japan: Pana Wave removes riverside cloth
2003-08-14	Japan: government will not set aside funds for proposed secular war memorial
2003-06-07	Backgrounder on Japan’s Pana Wave cult
2002-08-21	Japan’s revisionists turn emperor into a god once more
2002-06-03	Why Japan’s Terror Cult Still Has Appeal
2001-08-29	No women allowed in Japanese tunnel; the reason? bad luck
2001-08-08	Japanese temple holds funeral service for retired pachinko machines
2001-07-20	Suspicious wives in Japan use “magical holy phalluses” to keep husbands from cheating
2001-03-18	As trials drag on, Aum doomsday cult still casts shadow on Japan
2000-11-13	Japanese foot-reading cult ordered to pay for fraud
2000-06-05	Japanese PM’s approval rating plummets after religious remark
2000-05-09	Japanese cops stamp out foot-reading cult