FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--The hollowed out head of an ancient Buddhist statue kept at the Myooin temple here revealed sheet after sheet of “washi” traditional paper adorned with images ...

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 ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

Buddhist monks and nuns who live in eastern Prince Edward Island say they were disappointed to hear some of the concerns expressed at a planning meeting this past week in the Town of Three Rivers.

Forty-one bodies have been found inside a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where they were allegedly being used in meditation practices. Police are now trying to identify the cadavers discovered on ...

Christopher Newman, a British-born Buddhist living in Bundaberg in Queensland's south east, was wrongly believed to be Lord Lucan - an infamous aristocrat and gambler who vanished from London on N ...

TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer price inflation probably accelerated in November, driven by persistently high rice prices and the phasing out of utility subsidies, a Reuters poll ...

MOSCOW, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that if the United States stationed missiles in Japan, this would threaten Russian security and prompt Moscow to retaliate. Japan's Kyodo news ...

Following a four-year suspension, China will again start allowing visa-free travel for Japanese nationals visiting the country for up to 30 days from Nov. 30, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing ...

TOKYO: Japan's government plans to raise the country's key taxes starting in April 2026 to fund more defence spending after a one-year delay, according to a document seen by Reuters on Thursday ...