Temple bells part of scrap metal used to fuel Japan’s war effort

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s ...
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Buddhist bells, dragons & water, oh my! Inside the oldest bells in Japan

If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry gates and continued straight to their venerable main halls. Perhaps you admired the architecture, gazed upon ...
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As sales of Japan temples and shrines surge, a crackdown on bad-faith buyers

SANBAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) - 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 ...
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The eerie secret hiding within Japan’s magnificent temples

Travellers who explore famous religious sites in Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka don’t realise their behaviour is closely monitored by these creepy ogres. Aussie travellers are lured to Japan not just by it ...