India's perfumery tradition spans thousands of years, with mentions in ancient texts like the Vedas. The art form originated ...

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 ...

The Kumano Kodo, leading to Kumano, the sacred land of the Gods, is one of the few pilgrimage roads designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Twenty years after the designation, we explore the ...

Supporting Believers for a Millennium: A Kumano Kodo Temple Lodge We meet a temple lodge proprietor who is said to be the descendant of demons. The historic lodge is frequented by practitioners of ...

In 1997, after graduating from the Manhattan School of Music with a BFA in jazz flute and saxophone performance and performing with New York’s Soh Daiko, Kaoru moved to Japan and joined the ...

The Mazda CX-5 stamped its Kodo design and SkyActiv technology authority all over the Japan Car of the Year awards, taking the top prize ahead of the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT 86. It is Mazda's second ...

While other religions and cultures teach that homosexuality is sinful, Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura is spreading ... because I'm a homosexual monk." "In Japan, it is not common for people to ...