Designed by Uheiji Nagano (1867-1937), renowned for his work on many bank buildings during the Meiji era ... often used to support the heavy roofs of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan.

With the occasion of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, art galleries and museums throughout the Kansai region held special ...

Enjoying four very distinct seasons, deciding on the best time to visit Japan will depend on what exactly you want to ...

The Chua Phat Son Buddha Mountain Center intends to relocate to a new site and building. Roanoke County officials last week OK'd a special use permit for the proposal.

Laotian immigrants first began arriving in Grand Island in the early 1980s, brought to town like many immigrants by the local beef packing plant, which was called Monfort at the ...

A drunk American tourist sparked outrage in Japan after damaging a 761-year-old temple that’s linked to Japan’s samurai ...

Bangladesh unveiled new currency notes on Sunday — replacing images of founding father Mujibur Rehman with famous artwork and images of temples. The first President of Bangladesh has been ...

While Obon is typically celebrated by Buddhists in Japan, the season always seems to bring people of all backgrounds together in celebration across the Big Island.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

A fire broke out on Tuesday in a building housing some of South Korea's national treasures neighbouring the historic Buddhist Jogye temple in Seoul, but it was later extinguished and there was no ...