If you’ve ever traveled in Asia, you may have been caught off guard by a symbol considered by most Western travelers as a sign of fascism. The swastika is an ancient Sanskrit symbol meaning ...

Many say the ancient Sanskrit symbol - which has been adopted into Japanese where it is pronounced manji - has long been associated with Buddhism and Japanese culture, and that the tourists should ...

The ancient Sanskrit symbol was used to denote religious buildings long before it was appropriated by the Nazi regime, but it continues to spread confusion among Western visitors to Japan.

Try a backwards swastika. To the Japanese, these nationally used pictograms make perfect sense (the left-facing swastika is, in fact, a sanskrit symbol for Buddhism). But to tourists, the icons ...

LONDON: Europe may be forced into considering a continent-wide ban on the swastika, one of the oldest, most globally recognized but also most reviled Sanskrit symbols in the West. LONDON ...