1.   Before World War II, it was virtually unheard of for a Shinto priest to be a woman, and the priesthood was usually passed from father to son.

2.   Hashimoto becomes a Shinto priest at Kyoto.

3.   His parole officer is also a Shinto priest, who helps Yamashita rehab an abandoned barbershop so he can follow the trade he was taught in prison.

4.   In the years after, Murai become a Shinto priest, married and fathered two children.

5.   People hire Shinto priests to appease these spirits before starting to build houses and offices.

6.   Shinto priest Norimaro Saeki blesses a group of hikers at the Oyama shrine on Mount Tateyama in the Japanese Alps.

7.   Shinto priests have even elevated Japanese leaders who were executed as war criminals to be kami, or deities.

8.   So the entire town gathered together for an elaborate ceremony by Shinto priests to purify the highway and appease the angry spirits.

9.   Three Shinto priests rise from a wooden bench and move toward the water.

10.   While shinto priests chanted and waved sacred branches, Japan introduced the prototype of its FSX fighter Thursday, the first major weapon jointly developed with the United States.