The temple is also an important Buddhist pilgrimage site. Located in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park, Meiji-Jingu is one of Japan's most ...

But hundreds of years before Hachiko, was a very loyal cat, which inspired a cat temple in Japan. The Unrinji Temple in west Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture, is a temple dedicated to cats and also ...

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--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 ...

However, Buseoksa temple in South Chungcheong province, located in west-central South Korea, claimed that the statue was looted in the 14th century by Japanese “wako” pirates.

The temple is a designated UNESCO World Heritage ... Nara is around 45km (28 miles) south of Kyoto, and was once the capital of Japan. It remains popular with tourists. Under Japanese law, any ...