David Chart

Japanese graduation season has come and gone again, and, as usual, Jinja Shinpō has published an article about the new priests who graduated from the… Read More »New Priests 2021

A couple of weeks ago I was preparing something for Jinja Honchō, and needed to check Kokugakuin’s English Shinto website. That reminded me that I… Read More »Kokugakuin’s English Site

The Kumamoto Earthquakes were just over five years ago. About six months ago, I wrote an essay about their impact and the recovery, but the… Read More »Rebuilding in Kumamoto

April’s Patreon essay was about the archaeology of Shinto, and it is now available for purchase on Gumroad. Although the earliest written records of Shinto… Read More »Archaeology Essay

The April 26th issue of Jinja Shinpō had a couple of articles about the ongoing court case involving Jinja Honchō. I’ll keep this brief, because… Read More »Court Case Update

The April 19th issue of Jinja Shinpō has an article that draws out some of the issues from my post last week about public and… Read More »Privately Public