Image: VICKI L BEYER Kukai, a Buddhist monk since age 20, was appointed the Eighth Patriarch of Esoteric Buddhism during two years of study in China a decade before founding Koyasan. It was to ...

Tokyo, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)--Japan terminated the issuance of traditional public health insurance cards Monday for a full shift to the system of using the My Number personal identification card ...

This illustration shows a My Number individual identification card. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Monday halted issuing new health insurance cards, as the government pushes to merge their ...

There is a lot of confusion among the public about Japan’s plan to integrate public health insurance cards with My Number identification cards and how the changes are being implemented.

Oracle announced that NTT DATA Japan, a global digital business and IT services leader that is part of the NTT Group, has selected Oracle Alloy to help Japanese organizations across the public and ...

With just one month remaining in 2024, a Buddhist temple near Tokyo is preparing a gigantic straw rope decoration for the New Year. At Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple in Chiba Prefecture, about 10 ...

Shurei Sasai, a Buddhist monk from Japan, is working in India for the restoration of Buddhism, which claims that all people are equal. The 89-year-old has been devoting his life to freeing people ...

Konami and Japan Post will work together to release a new set of stamps inspired by Yu-Gi-Oh card illustrations. This collaboration will also feature an exclusive ukiyo-e style illustration of the ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

(Mainichi/Masanori Hirakawa) FUKUOKA -- New Year's greeting cards for 2025 have begun to be sold in Japan. With a postage rate increase last month, regular cards now cost 85 yen (around 55 cents ...