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.