Japanese monks have been skipping, skating and juggling to show how unrestrictive their traditional attire is. It comes after a monk was fined by police for driving while wearing a kimono because ...

OTSU--Four hundred and fifty years after thousands of Buddhist monks and citizens were killed ... he was consolidating power in many parts of Japan. He was outraged when the temple sheltered ...

But that wasn't always the case. The legendary Sohei warrior monks of medieval Japan were quite the opposite of the image of ...

Born in the town of Ibigawa in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Yokoyama went to Manchuria in 1943, a region in present-day northeast China, when he was 18 years old. He worked as a Buddhist monk in ...

The Dragon Palace Temple marked its 25th anniversary in a grand event at Kamptee, Nagpur on November 15, an official statement said. The Ogawa Society of Japan, which has contributed towards building ...

He wants to share with the world "things only I can tell because I'm a homosexual monk." "In Japan, it is not common for people to be torn apart over coming out as an LGBTQ+ because it would go ...