An American tourist in Tokyo, Japan was arrested after he allegedly used his fingernails to carve five letters into a gate at the Meiji Jingu Shrine, which opened in 1920. On Tuesday, the 65-year ...

A temple employee found the ... wooden gates still standing in Japan. A Buddhist hall sits on the upper level. The central government designated the gate a national treasure in 2002.

One such project is Zojoji temple’s San Gedatsu Mon gate, one of the oldest wood structures ... from among highly-skilled craftspeople across Japan. Kanakubo, a native of Tokyo, joined Shimizu ...

Its central gate, main hall, and five-story pagoda ... "You can feel the atmosphere of a Japanese temple," he says. "It's also an opportunity to stay in a real wooden building built many years ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking ...

Shikoku is the smallest of Japan's four main islands ... a panoramic spot about 600m from the main temple, where a torii gate stands at the edge of a cliff, flanked by cedar trees.

That's the impression when you step into the Qambalin Buddhist temple in this city's Moriyama Ward, the only officially recognized Tibetan temple in Japan ... the red gate, a colorfully decorated ...

Walking up the stone steps and entering the red gate, a colorfully decorated ... Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and the Mongolia-born ...