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” ...

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TOKYO >> The wisdom of the Buddha may one day be in the palm of your hand, with a BuddhaBot icon on your phone nestled between the latest mobile game and a dating app. BuddhaBot is a chatbot that uses ...

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, the pro-stimulus conservative who has become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret ...

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 ...

Richard Gere is hoping to share the story of one of his closest friends for nearly half a century, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gere, 76, is the executive producer of Wisdom of Happiness, a ...

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, front row center, with Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s newly appointed internal affairs and communications minister, front row right, in 2014. Photographer: Kiyoshi ...