Tuck into local delicacy conger eel rice and stay at hotels that cost a fraction of Kyoto and Osaka's prices. Read more at ...

Matcha tea, a finely ground powder made from specially grown green tea leaves, has been a staple in Japanese culture for over ...

In the late sixth century, Zen Buddhist monks began creating simple gardens as a tranquil space for meditation. These karesansui, translated to dry landscape or dry mountain water in Japanese ...

(Bloomberg) -- ESG investing is so popular in Japan that even Buddhist monks are getting into it. One of the new investors is Tokuunin, a Zen Buddhist temple in central Tokyo. The religious group ...

Peter is a Zen monk and senior teacher in the Open Way Zen School, and has been practicing Zen for 25 years and is a disciple of Soto Zen master Hogen Yamahata of Chogen-ji temple, Japan.