There are about 17.822 million people who practice the Shinto religion. Most of them reside in Japan, or come from Japanese background. Asia has the largest population of the Shinto religion. The religion was founded about 2,500 years go. Approximately 0.2% of the world is Shinto.
Japan
Around 500 BCE.
Shinto is not credited to any particular founder.
Most scholars agree that there was at least one migration from East Asia and perhaps another from Central Asia to the ancient Japanese Archipelago, though there is no consensus as to where Shinto first developed. Early Shinto can be traced back into the mists of the Jōmon period; for full text, see link "Wikipedia: Shinto" on left There never was a real owner to the Shinto civillization it was made out of Peace and love
Spiritualities popular in East Asia.
Buddhism and Shinto
According to the patheos website, Shinto started at around 500 BCE. Please see related link below for source.
Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto
Shinto is an action-oriented religion indigenous of Japan. The word Shinto means 'way of the gods' and the religion was founded in 660 BC.
Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto were first religions before westerners arrived
the primary religions in west Asia are: Buddhism Zen Buddhism Lamaism o Tibetan Buddhism Shinto =keztrene hinata:)