In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

The film "Human Face of Japan" explores Japan's cultural evolution from its ancient animist practices to modern Shinto and Buddhist traditions, highlighting the impact of post-war economic growth ...

Last year, Japan started collecting entry fees of ¥2,000 (£10) per head from people climbing the famous volcano to limit the ...

In two experiments, East Asians had more positive views of human-chatbot interactions than European Americans did. Might this tendency stem from Eastern religious traditions?

Last year, Japan started collecting entry fees of ¥2,000 (£10) per head from people climbing the famous volcano to limit the ...

This marked the beginning of what would become a sacred site of syncretic Shintoism and Buddhism. Taichō continued his ascents of Mount Hakusan, spending years training at Hiraizumi and on other ...

The Koumano Kodo pilgrimage trail is home to some of Japan's most spiritual sites with temples, shrines and beautiful forests ...

Tatsuya Shindo was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime gang. His arm-length tattoos are a sure sign of ...

In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

“Unusually for Japan, both Shinto and Buddhist gods are worshipped here,” she explains, “but the god of the mountain is all-powerful, so we must show utmost respect in his presence — solem ...