CNN’s Will Ripley tries the Buddhist ritual “takigyo,” or waterfall mediation, in the Ise-Shima National Park.

Smartphone apps, social media, and artificial intelligence are all making religion more accessible. Is it enough to slow ...

Join CNN's Senior International Correspondent,Will Ripley,on The Journey Matters, as he ventures through the beautiful, lush ...

Travel Mart on 6 December. The event saw around 70 professionals from Macao engage in discussions with the Japanese delegates ...

"You have people who are Indian practicing, you have new Japanese Buddhists coming in, you have Nepalese Buddhists. … it’s ...

With just one month remaining in 2024, a Buddhist temple near Tokyo is preparing a gigantic straw rope decoration for the New Year. At Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple in Chiba Prefecture, about 10 ...

By Alimat Aliyeva The hieroglyph kin (gold) has been chosen as the symbol for the outgoing year 2024 in Japan, ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest of Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, writes the kanji character "kin," meaning gold or money, with a calligraphy brush on Dec. 12, 2024. The character was selected as the ...

Deep in the mountains of northern Wakayama Prefecture, nestled in stately tall trees, sits one of the most important Buddhist sites of Japan: Koyasan. What began as a Buddhist training center 12 ...

Members of the Japanese civil group, the China Cultural Relics Return Movement Association, urged the Japanese government to ...

On a recent chilly evening, she walked a few steps from her house into the monastery home of the center’s abbot, the ...