11.   Japanese make pilgrimages to major Shinto shrines at important junctures in their lives.

12.   Omiya has more than a dozen Shinto shrines, one for each tiny cluster of families.

13.   On a muggy summer morning, two old men paused to admire a massive wooden column at a Shinto shrine near the Imperial Palace.

14.   Shinto shrines, in fact, far outnumber Sony and Mitsubishi plants.

15.   Some doll collections, like that of the Hasegawas, include a dress the baby will wear for a special celebration at the Shinto shrine during her third year.

16.   Staff also occasionally prayed with him at a Shinto shrine on the day before quarterly expiration of futures contracts, when there is traditionally a lot of trading.

17.   Such official visits to the Shinto shrine provoke controversy and might violate the separation of church and state in the Japanese constitution.

18.   We stayed overnight in a pricey hotel in Nikko, a mountainous city known for ancient Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples and natural beauty.

19.   With its reflecting pool and replica of a Shinto shrine, it provides the kind of refuge every metropolis should have.

20.   He said a Shinto shrine fell apart in Tottori, the hardest hit state.