Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, particularly in Japan and South Korea.

The church, whose links to former prime minister Shinzo Abe were at the heart of his assassination, will be forced to return ...

A “polite persecution” is facing Japan that threatens the guarantees given to the freedom of religion, according to Cardinal ...

Japan’s religious landscape is shaped by a long and complex relationship between Shinto and Buddhism. Buddhism arrived in Japan from the Asian mainland in the 6th century and gradually influenced ...

Tokyo High Court, in its March 4 ruling, upheld a decision dissolving the Unification Church of Japan and it is likely to ...

Japan unveils its first AI buddhist monk robot as Kyoto University researchers turn to technology to support temples facing ...

The book, releasing April 7, uses the Japanese art of Kintsugi — repairing broken pottery with gold — as a metaphor for a ...

The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to require K-12 public schools to start each day with a student-led prayer and the pledge of allegiance. The bill by Rep. Reed Ingram, ...

The religious group known as the Unification Church on Monday filed a special appeal to Japan's Supreme Court against a Tokyo High Court order to dissolve the group. But the liquidation procedures ...

Oversized panels are set up inside the B.F. Hamilton Library on Franklin College’s campus, part of the exhibit “A Resilient Faith: Japanese American Baptists During World War II.” The exhibit, which ...

A glimpse into the hard work and dedication of a young girl running one of Japan’s smallest food trucks.

Time moves on. And history gets forgotten. But between the latest war from Iran in the Middle East and the arrest of two ISIS-supporting young people in New York who were plotting an attack on New ...