6th graders on west Japan's Mt. Koya guide tourists in English as they present yearlong study
KOYA, Wakayama -- Twelve sixth grade students appointed as "child tourism ambassadors" by this west Japan town recently ...
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Historian works to share Shikoku pilgrimage across the world
Moreton, who first arrived in Japan in 1988, obtained Japanese ... with Kukai (774-835), the monk who founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism and is known posthumously as Kobo Daishi.
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To-ji Temple
The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda ... The five-story pagoda, Japan's tallest wooden structure and the symbol of Kyoto The five-story pagoda you ...
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How a former gang member in Japan found a new path through Christianity
Tatsuya Shindo was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime gang. His arm-length tattoos are a sure sign of ...
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Growth Is Good. Survival Is, Too.
According to 2016 data from the Japan Congress on Evangelism, 81 percent of Protestant churches in Japan have fewer than 50 ...
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Robot helps spread Buddhist teachings at a Kyoto temple
KYOTO--Inspired by a priest’s belief that Buddhist practices should evolve, the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy has manifested himself as a robot at a temple here. The android edition of ...
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Editorial & Columns
French FM Jean-Noel Barrot Says No Such Thing as Global South; G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Ongoing in South Africa The Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting is being held in South Africa from Feb.