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-old tourist allegedly carved ...

Pilgrimages have been part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. The UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo is legendary among ...

Police said the 17-year-old boy carved "Julian" on a pillar at the Toshodaiji Kondo temple complex in Nara, Japan. The boy was ... based man carving a message into a wall at Rome's ancient Colosseum.

Carved into a cliff across the river from the temple Ōnodera in Nara Prefecture stands the largest rock carving of Buddha in Japan. Since the beginning of the thirteenth century, this remarkable ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A centuries-old tradition ended in 2024 due to Japan's aging population and decline in birth rates. The Somin-sai was one of the three major Hadaka Matsuri ...

In Japan, there's much talk about an American tourist who carved letters into the wooden gate of one of Tokyo's most frequently visited temples. Meiji-jingū is a Shinto place of worship in the ...

Immerse yourself in Japanese ... into lively and charming poses, is inspired by the idea of recreating the Buddha's palace in paradise. Its image is so popular that there is even a replica of this ...

A temple in South Korea says it will return a Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple after holding a memorial service for it next year. The statue has been designated a tangible cultural ...