Nara Japan offers beauty, history and deer encounters, and is especially gorgeous during cherry blossom season.

Temple Japan is expanding to Kyoto in a year, developing along with the campus's growing student population. | COURTESY / GEORGE MILLER Temple’s Japan Campus will open a new satellite campus in Kyoto ...

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Cultural Discoveries are a minor collectible in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. They're floating balls of light that, when looked at with Observe, will add an entry into the Codex, detailing the real ...

Nine swordsmen stormed the Toji-in temple in Kyoto. The victims were utterly defenseless ... The Creation of the Soul of Japan,” adds this detail: The swordsmen “then exposed the heads ...

Aerial view of the Yoshinoyama's cherry blossoms in Nara, Japan.

At Kyoto's Jissoin Temple ... The leaves of about 200 maple trees in the temple's garden have turned green, as spring is in full swing in Japan's ancient capital. The leaves are beautifully ...

It was started during the Meiji Restoration in 1868 as a celebration of the Heian Shrine and Kyoto's 1,100th year anniversary as capital. Most notable is the 2-kilometer long era procession. This is a ...

A 14th-century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a years-long legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ownership ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In Kanazawa it’s clear the city is no stranger to visitors. Several hours north of Kyoto and touted as Japan’s “next big thing ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday. A ritual was held at Kannonji Temple to mark the return ...