21. It is to be built adjacent to a Shinto shrine to war dead including convicted war criminals. 22. Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama canceled his scheduled annual visit to a famous Shinto shrine Wednesday, apparently because of a fever. 23. On the outskirts of town, a Shinto shrine marks the beginning of the trails that wind to the mountaintop. 24. Snow started to fall Sunday at Winter Olympic sites, a day after local tourism officials prayed at a Shinto shrine for snowfall. 25. The cauldron that will hold the flame during the games features a replica of a Shinto shrine to the guardian deity of travelers. 26. The festival is held in the spring every few years in honor of a local Shinto shrine, police said. 27. The obi used Friday was a gift from Emperor Akihito, and it was consecrated at a Shinto shrine before the ceremony. 28. The women then head to a Shinto shrine and ask the resident deity to watch over their offspring and to ease the pain of giving birth. 29. Tsuyochi Iwashita, a spokesman for the National Police Agency, said a Shinto shrine fell apart. 30. In Kobe, which was hardest by the quake, the Ikuta Jinja shinto shrine was all but destroyed. |