INAZAWA, Aichi Prefecture--Women officially joined a so-called "naked festival" at a shrine in central Japan on Thursday for the first time in the event's 1,250 year history, donning purple robes ...

Japanese monks have been skipping ... on Twitter doing agile acts with the hashtag "I can do this in monks' robes". And it's not just skipping ropes - many of them are taking on more ambitious ...