After a Buddhist monk in Japan was cited for wearing clothing that could impede his ability to safely drive a car, fellow clergy took to Twitter to show off just how nimble they can be in ...

Buddhist monks took to Twitter in solidarity after one of their own was ticketed in Japan for driving while wearing religious robes.

Kazuo Inamori, a self-made mogul in Japan’s postwar boom who portrayed work as an almost spiritual mission as he built powerhouse ceramics and telecommunications companies and then traded his ...

A Buddhist monk in Japan received a traffic violation when driving in his robe. The police officer who pulled the monk over said the attire interfered with his safe driving, The Japan News reports.

The monk was stopped by police last September while on his way to a Buddhist memorial service in Japan's Fukui province, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

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The 21-year-old college student was detained by Japanese authorities and accused of trying to smuggle over $2.4 million worth of drugs from Cambodia.

On the other side of the screen appears a Buddhist monk. He appears in front of a Japanese garden background, dressed in the traditional robe and smilingly greeting in Spanish. "Hello! Nice to ...

A Japanese Buddhist monk has finished a gruelling nine-day ritual without eating, drinking, or sleeping as he chanted sutras 100 000 times, reports say.

A short history of Buddhism, with special focus on its introduction and development in Japan.