TOKYO - The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment — good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace. But what makes the cafe truly interesting is ...

If Japanese Buddhist Temple Bells Could Talk If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through ...

A 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is using a $1 million humanoid to reach a younger generation, but foreigners are repulsed by it. The Kodaji Temple, in a partnership with the robotics ...

You can hear a sermon about the Heart Sutra at almost any Buddhist temple. But at one house of worship in Japan, it's delivered by a robot. Mindar, a 6-foot-tall, gender-neutral android modeled after ...

A drone picture shows a mask placed on a 57-metre-high statue of Buddhist goddess Kannon to pray for the end of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin temple in ...