A Canadian teenager has been questioned by police in Japan after carving letters on a wooden pillar of an ... pillar at the Toshodaiji Kondo temple complex in Nara, Japan. The boy was caught ...

NARA--Medieval carpenters in Japan had a few tricks up their sleeves that astound experts even today. A pair of octagonal circular halls on the premises of 1,300-year-old Kofukuji temple here, a ...

In Area 1, we saw the impressive Great South Gate and its Kongo Rikishi, then took some photos at the mirror pond. We strolled up a historic stone walk to the Nigatsu-do Hall and learned about the ...

It may not be as well-known as Kyoto but Kizugawa is also home to loads of historical temples and sites, including six ...

Continue your explorations of Nara's seven temples at the Horyuji Temple, which is one of the oldest in Japan and includes a ...

Chinese bellflowers, known in Japan as kikyo, are in full bloom at the World Heritage Site of Gangoji Temple, Nara. With their balloon-like buds and star-shaped flowers, kikyo have a special place ...

The imposing figure, supported by a magnificent painted halo made from extravagantly carved wood, possesses ... Kondō (Golden Hall) at the temple Murōji in Uda, Nara Prefecture.

Nara Smith is a South African-born German social media personality and fashion model who has a net worth of $6 million. Nara Smith is known on social media for her cooking mini-vlogs, in which she ...

Most of them congregate in Nara Park, which is also home to temples and shrines. Visitors are allowed to feed them specially-made sugar-free crackers without plastic packaging. However ...

When you construct anything with wood, you’re confronted with the problem of how to make two pieces stay together. This is ...

“The wood is fractured. The roof has collapsed. And there’s stained glass.” By the mid-1900s, the congregation relocated to ...