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A Japanese shrine that gained attention from Ghost of Tsushima fans bans all tourists after what's being called an ...

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Judy Coode, communications director for the Catholic peace group Pax Christi USA who attended the Mass with several other Pax Christi staff, told RNS that the show of unity from both the ...

A century after he was born and 55 years after he met his grisly end, we still find Yukio Mishima’s works compelling and ...

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Islamic Relief USA’s Zakat policy limits its administrative costs to 12%; it permits funding for both immediate and long-term projects and allows Zakat to be distributed not just as cash ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get ...

The best tourist attractions in the USA are etched in our cultural memory and draw millions of visitors from around the globe each year for a reason, after all. The top tourist attractions in the ...