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The new pavilion is part of the Tenshinzan Shinshoji temple, which was built by the eponymous shipbuilding company as a respectful location to console the spirit of those who perish at sea. The ...

For the Buddhist temple Empukuji, in Iwaki City, the ritual of Ohigan brings daily visitors. Iwaki City, located on the northeast coast of Japan and about a hundred and twenty-six miles south of ...

The temple is two stories and sits on a half-acre site at 7-11-32 Matsumoto, Okinawa-shi, in Okinawa-ken, Japan. The first temple in Japan was dedicated in Tokyo in 1980.

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

TOKYO — As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on ...

Landscape view. The upper parts of the columns and the entablature of two sides are shown over the horizon. Mountainous country with a waterfall, beside which two men are shown, one on horseback.