Monks and worshippers spent the night of April 18 chanting sutras to honor the founder of Chion-in temple in Kyoto’s ...

UNESCO says ancient Buddhist scriptures stored at Tokyo's Zojoji temple will be added to its Memory of the World list.

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Are Shinto and Buddhism truly separate in Japan—or two parts of the same cultural fabric? This deep dive examines how Buddhist philosophy and Shinto kami worship coevolved over 1,500 years. From ...

Bad news for matcha lovers: the bright-green beverage may see an international shortage as Japan's supply runs low.

Japan has experienced the largest losses from Buddhism due to religious switching: 26% of all Japanese adults say they were brought up Buddhist in childhood but don’t identify as Buddhist today. 10 ...

As a gesture of goodwill, mementos were presented to Ambassador Ono and Commissioner Haraikawa by Bhikkhu Buddha Ratna, Maharathi, and BTMC members. The exchange reflected the shared Buddhist heritage ...

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated ...