Located in Kansai, Nara is considered to be the oldest city in Japan. It was the country's first permanent capital and played ...
Japan is not having it, with the throngs of tourists overtaking its most popular cities, such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. The ...
The pieces are part of the heads of Naga, archaeologists said, a guardian deity thought to have sheltered the Buddha from ...
large sections of carved stone were uncovered, pieces of a long-destroyed statue, archaeologists said. The stones once belonged to a seven-headed serpent-like statue found with a Buddha in the temple.