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 ...

which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building. The "stage," as it's called, sits atop huge pillars more than 40 feet above the hillside and affords visitors ...

A Canadian teenager has been questioned by police in Japan after carving letters on a wooden pillar of an 8th Century temple. Police said the 17-year-old boy carved "Julian" on a pillar at the ...

Each of these temples and shrines offers a unique cultural and spiritual experience. Be sure to pay a visit during your next ...

POLICIES & PRINCIPLESThere are various deterrents to war. Last week the world had a chance to inspect two.On a gentle hillside in China's Hunan province lay 5,000 skulls, temple to temple ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...