TOKYO - The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment — good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace. But what makes the cafe truly interesting is ...

A 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is using a $1 million humanoid to reach a younger generation, but foreigners are repulsed by it. The Kodaji Temple, in a partnership with the robotics ...

Monks at a Buddhist temple in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, have removed a year's worth of dust from ancient statues ...

You can hear a sermon about the Heart Sutra at almost any Buddhist temple. But at one house of worship in Japan, it's delivered by a robot. Mindar, a 6-foot-tall, gender-neutral android modeled after ...

TOKYO (AP) — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a yearslong legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ...

A typical visit to Japan for many tourists consists of a few days in Tokyo, a train over to Kyoto, maybe Osaka. You stay in a hotel full of amenities, or, if you’re on a budget, you might be staying ...

Archaeologists may have found a 63-foot-long banquet hall for nobility, dating back to the Asuka period, which extended from 538 A.D. to 794 A.D. What remains of the structure are holes in the ground ...

Sixty years ago, Phil­ip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” offered an acerbic vision of religious decline. He imagines the ever shrinking numbers that will attend England’s churches until finally only a ...

Around a center stage constructed for Obonfest, a lively crowd of dancers of all ages joyfully twirled under hundreds of red and white paper lanterns. The temporary festival venue, next to the Oregon ...

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