KYOTO--Police have opened an investigation into graffiti scratched into a pillar of the Sanmon gate, a centuries-old national treasure at Chionin temple, the main place of worship of the Jodo sect ...

The Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty to set legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, was adoped 25 years ago, on 11 December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. The agreement ...

Kyoto is just a two-hour shinkansen (bullet ... In 2023, a teenaged tourist also made headlines after scratching his name in a temple pillar in the nearby city of Nara. The temple swiftly ...

The boy was caught carving the pillar with his fingernail by a Japanese ... Nara is around 45km (28 miles) south of Kyoto, and was once the capital of Japan. It remains popular with tourists.

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--A peace memorial hall opened ... a calendar and other items of daily life, alongside an iron pillar that shored up the dilapidated roof to keep it from collapsing.