Nara Japan offers beauty, history and deer encounters, and is especially gorgeous during cherry blossom season.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be ...

Kamakura served as a spiritual hub of Zen Buddhism and a center of samurai devotion. Kenchō-ji, the city’s oldest and most ...

Japan is a paradise of the unattainable, with temples dating back centuries, high-tech cities, and island resorts. Whether ...

The visitor returns not just with the jewel-like beauty of the country imprinted on the mind, the body rejuvenated by hot ...

From there, you can stroll through Nara Park, the domain of more than a thousand wandering sika deer. These animals, seen as ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for ...

Last year, several ancient Buddha statues were unearthed along the Mekong River shoreline in Tonpheung district. They are believed by some to be remnants of a 14th-16th century temple, although ...

airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C., Greek sculptors began imitating the world around them, and glorifying the sensual human form. Even now, ancient Greek ...