Japan’s unique relationship to faith is on full display during the final week of the year: People celebrate Christmas with an exchange of presents, ring Buddhist temple bells on New Year’s Eve ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan ... from Buddhist temples and treasures ...

For a particularly unique experience, visitors can even step inside the statue ... Hōryū-ji Temple is one of the oldest ...

Buddhism has long been something ... Instead, the temple has opened a front window so people can see the face of the Great Buddha inside. The temple has started an unprecedented 24-hour live ...

actual visits to Buddhist temple A Buddhist temple in Japan with more than 400 years of history has found a way to attract ...

A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan's cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country's oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple. The communal loo at Tofukuji ...

The clock, stored in a Buddhist temple, was submerged by the tsunami on Japan's north-eastern coast ... or that dust that had built up inside came loose." Mr Sakano, whose temple served as a ...