On Oct. 16 the delegation traveled to Nara, Japan’s former capital and a cultural heritage site. It features the Tōdai-ji Buddhist temple, with a golden 49-foot-tall Nara Daibutsu or Great ...

I will be taking a day excursion from Tokyo down to Kamakura on my upcoming trip to see the temples and shrines ... then I followed the Diabutsu hiking course from Jochi-ji to the Daibutsu via ...

A Buddhist temple in Japan with more than 400 years of history has found a way to attract young followers by posting original wise mottos on Instagram. On a daily basis, the temple in Western ...

Long-standing tensions between Japan and South Korea have reached a symbolic peak over a Buddhist statue stolen from Kannonji Temple on the Japanese island of Tsushima and transported to South Korea ...

Established in 1982, Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) stands as the largest and oldest foreign university in Japan. As a full-service branch campus of the renowned Temple University ...

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

you will find a hint of patina like a historic library or an ancient Japanese temple. When we made Hibiki 35, the antique character was yet to emerge.” In 1984, right after graduating from ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

Japan will designate Buddhist Manpuku-ji Temple in Kyoto as a national treasure, and six other structures as important cultural properties. A meeting at the Agency for Cultural Affairs reached the ...

By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The steady course of the Japanese economy and business environment that has helped attract a torrent of investment in the past two years could be undercut ...