SANBAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) - 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 was ...

Beyond trade deals and defence pacts, a spiritual corridor is emerging between Uttar Pradesh and Japan. And the Buddhist ...

Kinkaku-ji is one of the shrines in Japan, also known as the Golden Pavilion. (Photo: Klook SG) In Japan, the two main religions are Shinto and Buddhism as most Japanese consider themselves Buddhist, ...

EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) - Deep in a forest near Japan's western shore, a 13th century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper ...

KOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Ryusho Soeda, 66, has taken on a job for which his career as a Buddhist priest never prepared him: forensic accounting. Soeda's temple is the 1,200-year-old Koyasan, a World ...

TOKYO – As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on maps ...

TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Travellers who explore famous religious sites in Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka don’t realise their behaviour is closely monitored by these creepy ogres. Aussie travellers are lured to Japan not just by it ...

EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) – Deep in a forest near Japan’s western shore, a 13th century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper ...

On the surface, there’s little out of the ordinary at the Jison-In Temple complex in Japan. Sitting at the foot of Mount Koya – the country’s most spiritual peak – in the small town of Kudoyama in ...

Sixty years ago, Phil­ip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” offered an acerbic vision of religious decline. He imagines the ever shrinking numbers that will attend England’s churches until finally only a ...