A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea’s Supreme Court ruled it should be ...

A consortium of 10 Buddhist temples in northern Kyoto Prefecture, together with a nonprofit organization, launched a website ...

This underrated city was once the capital of Japan in the Middle Ages and is now a beautiful, tourist-friendly hub with ...

Omachi City in Nagano Prefecture reported damage from the magnitude 5 earthquake that hit the northern part of the ...

Here at Shoren-in Temple, Emperor Kanmu prayed for peace for the capital and buried a shogun statue inside its burial mound This burial mound is located at an enclave for Shoren-in Temple, one of the ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

and the temple now is the current Kawagoe Betsuin temple. You can request for a prayer called o-goma. O-goma is a praying ritual where you burn firewood called goma-ki in front of the principle statue ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...