The Japanese Dog Preservation Society, Nihon-ken Hozonkai, was created to maintain and preserve six specific native Japanese dog breeds. This organization is similar to the American Kennel Club (AKC) ...

A Ukrainian woman working in Japan after leaving her war-torn homeland recounted her experience walking the Buddhist pilgrimage routes in･･･ ...

As Japan's dwindling population increasingly migrates to cities, 450 rural schools close each year. Now, some are being ...

The most recognisable figure along the Shikoku Henro is Kukai, or Kobo Daishi, the founder of esoteric Shingon Buddhism, one of several versions of Buddhism practiced in Japan. He was born in 774 ...

“The Shikoku Henro taught me that there’s a limit to what a person can accomplish alone,” says Mukaihara. “Ultimately, it’s by working with others that we can achieve something ...

Shikoku-born Isao Murashita would be our guide in both spirituality and adventure. Today it’s customary, but not mandatory, to wear the outfit henro have worn for hundreds of years, he explained.

“Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines; good climate; no endemical diseases. “Market town of Zentsuji with 25,000 ...

In the meantime, the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, which is also on the main island of Shikoku, has a painting in its collection that also appears to be a forgery by Beltracchi.