SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

One such example is a poem from 1689 by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, which reflects a long-standing tradition of finding peace in the forest. Today, this practice is known as shinrin-yoku ...

Refuting perceptions of roadblocks to bring back the mortal remains held in an urn in a Buddhist temple in Renkoji in Japan, widely believed to be that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a section of ...

Established by Emperor Shirakawa during the Heian Period, the temple's name derives from the ingo (posthumous Buddhist name) of Yoshiakira Ashikaga, the second shogun of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese ...

Stress is something we all experience in our lives more than we would like. Luckily, there are many ways to relieve stress, including a Japanese technique called Shinrin Yoku or forest bathing. This ...

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