Left: Sengai Gibon “Kanzan and Jittoku” (late 18th or early 19th century), hanging scroll; ink on paper (courtesy Japan Society’s Gitter-Yelen Collection); middle: Nakahara Nantenbō “Monk Procession” ...

More than a dozen Buddhist monks stopped in Houston on Nov. 14, 2025, as part of a 2,000-mile journey on foot. At the corner of Bellaire Boulevard and Boone Road, on a warm day in west Houston, more ...

Dr. Masahide Kanayama has devoted his life in Manhattan to medicine and God. He could face five years of hard labor in Japan. Dr. Masahide Kanayama, a well-known endometriosis expert and practicing ...

Zen Box Izakaya, a Japanese restaurant that's served food in downtown Minneapolis for over 20 years, is set to close. The restaurant said in a social media post on Friday morning that its final day of ...

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right. Sanae Takaichi acknowledging the applause after she was ...

On September 13, 2025, echoes of “We are Charlie Kirk” could be heard across Seoul. From Jamsil to Gangnam, thousands of young Koreans commemorated American political activist Charlie Kirk’s death by ...

"A translation of a Japanese Ms., which consists of an introduction and twelve chapters written separately by nine living Japanese priests"--p. v. https://siris ...

A Zen Buddhist Temple has opened its doors in Bellingham after three years of renovation on its new facility. The Red Cedar Zen Community has offered meditation-based practice since it was founded in ...

The ancient Near East : Mesopotamia -- The ancient Near East : Egypt -- The ancient Near East : Canaan-Phoenicia -- The religious matrix of greater Syria -- Ancient Greece and Rome -- Shamanism -- ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...