Japanese joinery is an iconic aspect of traditional architecture in the Asian country, but Japan's many automakers have also ...

A building believed to house the oldest toilet in Japan faced its biggest ... Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto, said the doors of the approximately 600-year-old wooden communal toilet were damaged in ...

(Share Wing ) And now that pilgrims are a rarity in Japan, the temples are opening their sliding wooden doors to travellers from around the world. "Some people still use the lodgings when they are ...

Following the advice of Zen masters, Jon Stollenmeyer endured months of rejection before finally getting his foot in the sliding door ... infatuated with Japanese wood architecture.