“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

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

Police said the man allegedly defaced the pillar of a shrine gate in Tokyo’s Shibuya ... pillar at a UNESCO-listed temple in the historic city of Nara, Japan, according to local police.

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.