Shintoism

Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan, a sophisticated form of animism 
that holds that spirits called kami inhabit all things. Worship is at public 
shrines, or in small shrines constructed in one's home.

(Japanese: ??) is the native religion of Japan. It involves the worship of 
kami, which could be translated to mean gods, nature spirits, or just spiritual 
presences. Some kami are very local and can be regarded as the spirit or genius 
of a particular place, but others represent major natural objects and processes, 
for example, Amaterasu, the Sun goddess. The word Shinto was created by 
combining two Chinese characters (??, read shen dao in modern Chinese). The 
first character means "divine" or "God", and can also be read as "kami" in 
Japanese. The second character means "way" or "path," and is the character 
used for the word "Taoism." Thus, Shinto literally means "the way of the 
kami."

After World War II, Shinto lost its status of national religion; most Shinto 
practices and teachings, once given a great deal of prominence during the 
war, are no longer taught nor practiced today and some remain largely as 
everyday activities like omikuji.