NAGANO -- Graffiti has been discovered in more than 100 places on the famous Zenkoji temple, surrounding temples, shrines, and commercial buildings here, Nagano Prefectural Police told the ...

NAGANO -- Graffiti was discovered on five separate buildings in the Zenkoji temple complex here on Oct. 8, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. The white X-shaped marks, likely drawn with a white ...

NAGANO--A man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a sacred statue at the Zenkoji temple here, which has been revered for more than 300 years and earned a three-star recommendation from the ...

Every seven years, Zenkoji temple in Nagano holds an event honoring one of the oldest Buddhist images in Japan. The event, known as "Gokaicho", is taking place now through May 31, and offers a rare ...

The Zenkoji Temple Memorial Service Group held its 22th peace ceremony on Saipan and Tinian last week, honoring World War II fallen. According to a statement by Pacific Development Inc. director ...

On the evening of Jan 22, police were summoned to the bus rotary at the Zenkoji Exit of JR Nagano Station, where three people had been stabbed. Hiroyoshi Maruyama, a 49-year-old company employee in ...

"Some people still use the lodgings when they are on journeys to demonstrate their faith, but the number of those people is decreasing," said Kaiji Yamamoto, a senior monk at Zenkoji Temple in ...

Zenkoji Temple, a landmark in Nagano City, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics, reversed an earlier decision to host the starting ceremony on April 26, said the head of the local relay committee, ...