External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with Japan Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya on January 19 2025 in Washington DC ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...

Home to the ultra-efficient high-speed Shinkansen network, Japan is a country perfectly suited to exploration by train ...

NARA--The first story of the five-story pagoda ... Temple pagodas are built to enshrine Buddha’s ashes. Kofukuji’s five-story pagoda, which has national treasure status, was erected in 730 ...

Economic revival is setting the stage for Japan’s market, which has grown 11 percent since 2019, to expand more broadly.

It was the first garden in Japan to be designated as a Historic Site and Special Place of Scenic Beauty ... The temple's principal image, Shakyamuni Buddha and his two chief bodhisattva disciples, are ...