Japanese carpenters have been building elaborate shrines by hand for more than a millennium. A new exhibit shows the extraordinary tools and joints behind these extraordinary buildings. Since the 7th ...

An eighth century temple in Japan has been vandalized by a Canadian teen tourist, according to local police. The monument in question is the Toshodaiji Temple, located in the city of Nara, which lies ...

If you’re planning a trip to Japan, don’t spend all your time in Tokyo and Kyoto – jump on a Shinkansen bullet train and head for Hagi, an unblemished gem at the far western tip of Honshu, the main ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

While Japan’s overtourism issues may be causing headaches for local residents, there’s one group that seems to be benefiting from the influx of people – deer. Specifically, the deer who live in Nara, ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...