While Obon is typically celebrated by Buddhists in Japan, the season always seems to bring people of all backgrounds together ...

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento will host festivities ... in their kimonos and then their yukata, which is the cotton kimono.” The Church, which was founded in 1899, is celebrating its 125th ...

In rural Nagasaki, a dwindling number of Hidden Christians practise centuries-old rituals to honour their ancestors ...

On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers ...

Young people wearing traditional kimono have shot their first arrows of the year in a New Year's archery event at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. The Sanjusangendo temple hosted the event on Sunday.

Immerse yourself in a Japanese tea ceremony while wearing a kimono at Tokujuji, a 300-year-old Zen Buddhist temple on Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima. Though the style of drinking powdered ...