In Japan’s spiritual heartland, tradition meets craftsmanship in miniature form. Artisans in Ise are preserving centuries-old shrine-making by handcrafting sacred replicas for modern homes.

Today, nature draws visitors to this spiritual, secluded valley ... canyoning through glassy pools and some of Japan’s best white-water rapids at Koboke Gorge. Even crossing its swaying ...

to the “spiritual bridge spanning between East and West.” He was the first Japanese ever to win the literary award and the first Asian to be so honored since 1913, when the Indian poet ...

Japan to start releasing treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear plant ... Pacific Ocean that they identify with and and have spiritual and cultural connections with.

Japanese engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been forced to release radioactive waste water into the sea. At the same time they are resorting to desperate measures to contain the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday the government had formally decided to start releasing the water as early as Thursday, August 24, “if they encounter no obstacles.” ...

Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in July that Japan had shown selfishness and arrogance, and had not fully consulted the international community about the water release. China has ...

In the face of regional and domestic objections, the country plans to proceed with a discharge at Fukushima that will eventually reach more than a million tons of water. By Motoko Rich and Hisako ...

By Kathryn Romeyn In the East China Sea, in the south of Japan, the Okinawa prefecture ... the “ ‘Land of Miyagi’ was almost a spiritual one for me.” Because the country was closed ...