Top executives of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan, submitted a pledge to Hyogo prefectural police to end ...

Then, there is the art of incense appreciation, kodo, or the “way of scent.” According to a legend, a log of incense wood drifted ashore on Awaji Island in the third year of Empress Suiko’s ...

Unwrap the mystery of Japan’s spirituality at Unesco World Heritage site Kumano Kodo. The pilgrimage routes to Wakayama’s Kumano Sanzan shrines in the Kii Mountains, known as the Kumano Kodo ...