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Some General Back-story
The Hinode Shrine was first created in ancient Japan where it and it's patrons had stay all the way until 1908 when the first Japanese immigrant moved across the ocean to America. Well since most of the Hinode Shrine's patrons had mostly immigrated into the America's they decide to transport themselves to America as well. Good for business you know, well any who they dug up their Goshinboku Tree and replanted it in the cool fresh soil in the Appalation Mountains where they used the surrounding trees on their plot of land to build the shrine and the house and all the other buildings on the shrine compound.
Over time the strictly Japanese marriages were transferred to anyone you fall in love with, you could marry but on the premises that you, on their eighteenth birthday whether or not they become Warrior Priest or Priestess they get a new Japanese name so that the children and grand children and other future generations will never forget their roots. Though they can decide to change their new name legally or not, but on the compound they have to be addressed as either Priestess (new name) or Warrior Priestess (new name).
Since most of the patrons are still largely Japanese the Hinode Shrine speaks in Japanese and English also so that they can remember their roots.