After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...

We start in Nagoya, Japan’s lesser-known fourth-largest city. Often overlooked by tourists, it is easy to reach from the UK ...

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With Buddhist institutions and followers in Japan in decline, a Japanese priest and scholar is turning to artificial intelligence to revive spiritual engagement, an initiative drawing more interest ...

New Japan is scarcely thinkable with it. Really? Is it as bad as that? Maybe not. Islands of Zen remain – Tokyo’s Zenshoan Temple for example, where Hirai is head priest. Among those who have ...

WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – The TSTC Foundation has received a generous donation from a Waco company. Lochridge Priest specializes in electrical, mechanical and plumbing contracts. The company announced ...

For Yoshihisa Nakano, who at 80 looks back on a career more varied than most – founder, manager and/ or CEO of various enterprises in Japan and abroad – the notion that true wealth is not what you ...

Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or Zen-Noh, has shipped just 32% of the stockpiled rice that it bought from the government in March. Zen-Noh said Friday that ...

One of the late Pope Francis' central goals was to try and bring together the different strains of Catholicism. To do this, he used a particular device of ecclesiastical and institutional action ...

According to the latest data from Pew research, Seattle is tied with Portland for metro areas with the least religiously affiliated people. This episode, we have a panel of folks with different ...