Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff Wednesday in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and, surprisingly, loud karate chops. The contest, held on the sidelines ...

Every year, The Game Awards orchestra — featuring the electrifying energy of Pedro Eustache, affectionately known as Flute Guy — performs songs from all the Game of the Year nominees. With Metaphor: ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan's famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism. Kansho Tagai heads the 400-year ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The University of Chicago Presents and Japan Society co-present an evening of ...

A Japanese monk who “makes music for anxiety and less suffering” is being rewarded with millions of listeners. Yogetsu Akasaka, a 37-year-old Zen Buddhist monk, uses a loop station to combine and ...

In a quiet room thick with the smell of incense, Buddhist monk Kaichi Watanabe chants sutras to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a woman's death. The 41-year-old may look like a traditional ...