NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Shinto priest Nobuhiko Ise is not one to forget his roots in Fukushima Prefecture, where the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster triggered a nuclear catastrophe that ...

There are some 80,000 shrines, and about as many Shinto priests, in Japan but female priests make up only a tiny fraction of the number. About 80% of Japan's population practise some form of Shinto.