This beautiful island in Japan is wildly underrated, considering how much it has to offer travelers in terms of food, natural ...

TOKYO – While trying to schedule housing for a summer program at Temple Japan, I came across a discrepancy in dorm availability. TUJ offers two dorms: the Hiyoshi Men’s Dorm and the Kitazono Women’s ...

Famous for the Great Buddha of Kamakura which weighs 121 tonnes, Kotoku-in is a Buddhist temple of the Jodo-shu sect. Kotoku-in is a Buddhist temple of the jodo-shu sect founded by Priest Honen. The ...

Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami has never been limited to one medium, creating paintings, sculptures, luxury ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...

The exhibition, which originated at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, has several additions created specifically for Cleveland, notably a magnificent Japanese temple that’s taken shape in the ...

I definitely heard this bit crop up again in Osu as I watched guests ... from the tragedies that befell other neighborhoods in Japan. The temple's massive five-story pagoda burned down in a ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to a Japanese temple on Monday, ending a dispute that had contributed to bilateral friction, a source ...

The leaves of about 200 maple trees in the temple's garden have turned green, as spring is in full swing in Japan's ancient capital. The leaves are beautifully reflected on the dark wooden floor ...

Most notable is the 2-kilometer long era procession. This is a costumed procession of eight eras of Japan: The Meiji Restoration, Edo, Azuchi-Momoyama, Muromachi, Yoshino, Kamakura, and Fujiwara. Also ...

A 14th-century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a years-long legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ownership ...