Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby cities, Tsuta Tetsuichiro’s second feature, 2013’s The Tale of Iya, drew ...

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo ...

Don't hide from the colder weather - a new book explores how mindfulness, ‘magical' breathing and chi walking can turn a ...

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...

People often mistake solitude for loneliness, but the distinction is crucial. Solitude has, loneliness wants. It is all the ...

For the Japanese fair's 4th edition, art was shown not only in a gallery but at historic sites to deepen visitors' understanding of Kyoto Five household drying racks, draped in T-shirts creased from ...

From simple to classic to surreal, we take a closer look at innovative garden designs that are out of the ordinary.

We will also investigate Japanese reactions to Christianity in the 16th century ... from the Life of St. Anthony and the Rule of St. Benedict to the verses attributed to the first Buddhist nuns and a ...

It has similarities to Zen philosophy, only it centers around the ... attacks by lizard people from outer space. Pana Wave is ...

Zen Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno wrote a book about “How to Let Things Go” and focus on the things you can control.

I stayed at Hotel the Mitsui in Kyoto, Japan, and I'm sharing my experience here with tips on what to do, where to eat, and ...

Einhorn’s hedge fund returned just 9% in 2024 through the end of the third quarter, compared with the S&P 500′s more than 20% ...