The per capita income for the village was $18,389. About 5.5% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.0% of those under age 18 and 2.6% of those age 65 or over.
Shinto plays a ceremonial role in daily Japanese life as opposed to an important role. Why is the ceremonial assumed to be unimportant? Others might say that ritual and tradition are the heart of a culture, and the fact that even being a Christian can't dissuade your coworker from shrine worship is clear evidence of the importance of Shinto to Japanese culture.
Shintoism now took on four distinct forms 1  : The Shinto of the Imperial House, comprising a rite of worship of the Sun goddess, Amerterasu o Mikami. This religious cult was formerly public but is nowadays strictly private. 2  The Shinto of the Temples. These are the rituals practised in thousands of Japanese temples, united in one association, Jinja honcho. Both of these rites together constitute what is known as State Shinto, created at the beginning of the Meiji era and which lasted until the end of the second world war.