SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

OTSU--Four hundred and fifty years after thousands of Buddhist monks and citizens were killed in a historic massacre, old foes ... many parts of Japan. He was outraged when the temple sheltered ...

Wildfires driven by dry weather and strong winds were ravaging southern South Korea, killing 18 people, destroying more tha ...