IKARUGA, Nara Prefecture—Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited Horyuji temple on Jan. 14, a day after playing a BTS song together on the drums. The temple, ...

IKARUGA, Nara Prefecture—A ceiling board bearing graffiti of a man’s face is among 3,284 wooden pieces affiliated with the Kondo main hall of Horyuji temple that are expected to be collectively ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pose in front of Horyuji temple’s five-storied pagoda in Nara Prefecture on Wednesday morning. The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:43 JST, ...

President Lee Jae-myung, currently visiting Nara Prefecture, Japan, toured Horyuji Temple—a representative cultural heritage site in the region—on the morning of the 14th alongside Japanese Prime ...

Priests remove the dust from Buddhist statues and other items at Horyuji temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2021 in an annual December cleanup. (Mainichi/Satoshi Hishida) IKARUGA, Nara -- ...

Tucked away in the northwest corner of the Ueno grounds of the Tokyo National Museum stands the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, a modern structure with straight lines of glass and steel, fronted by a ...

Monks dust off Buddhist statues in the Kondo main hall at Horyuji temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, on Dec. 8, 2023. (Mainichi/Ai Kawahira)=Click/tap photo for more images. IKARUGA, Nara -- An ...

Horyuji Temple in Nara is one of Japan's most important Buddhist temples, founded by the legendary Prince Shotoku in the year 607 and hosting one of the oldest wooden buildings in the world, the ...

A small drive down the town, in the Kansai region, is this world heritage UNESCO site― Horyuji Temple, Nara. Situated in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture of Japan, the temple is sprawled across a wide complex ...

From 594 to 622, Prince Shotoku ruled Japan. He certainly lived up to his name, for “sho” means sacred and “toku” means virtue. During his reign, he promoted Buddhism in Japan, so much so that he is ...