SANBAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) - Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk was ...

TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Japan is where old traditions and modern wonders collide. From robot cafes in Tokyo to green tea ceremonies in the mountains ...

EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) - Deep in a forest near Japan's western shore, a 13th century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper ...

On the surface, there’s little out of the ordinary at the Jison-In Temple complex in Japan. Sitting at the foot of Mount Koya – the country’s most spiritual peak – in the small town of Kudoyama in ...

Japan's temples have long been business and tech-savvy, offering lucrative services like funerals while courting domestic tourists -- a recent Eiheiji exhibition featured video from a drone operated ...

As the country’s population declines and religious disaffection grows, religious sites are increasingly targeted for the tax breaks they provide. Out of 180,000 registered religious sites, as many as ...

EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) – Deep in a forest near Japan’s western shore, a 13th century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper ...

Sixty years ago, Phil­ip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” offered an acerbic vision of religious decline. He imagines the ever shrinking numbers that will attend England’s churches until finally only a ...

TOKYO - The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment — good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace. But what makes the cafe truly interesting is ...