MANDAN, N.D. ( North Dakota Monitor) – Greenpeace has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to move its Dakota Access Pipeline ...

A coalition of media organizations, including the North Dakota Monitor, petitioned the state Supreme Court Thursday seeking ...

The Gion Festival has two climactic parts to it: the Saki Matsuri (first festival) and the Ato Matsuri (latter festival). Each part culminates in a massive parade of floats called the “Yamahoko ...

At the Gion shopping district and elsewhere in this west Japan city, solar-powered "smart" garbage boxes were installed on Feb. 14, capable o･･･ ...

In Kyoto, tourists flock to the picturesque Gion district to glimpse Geisha clip-clopping along cobbled streets. It's one of the most photographed parts of the ancient capital. But now the people ...

THE JAPAN FOUNDATION, Manila made dreams come true on Feb. 22 and let an audience at the Shangri-La Plaza experience a night with geiko and maiko (better known here as geisha, but Kyoto, Japan’s ...

The structure in question is the Gion-kaku tower built in 1927 by industrialist Kihachiro Okura (1837-1928), who founded Sapporo Beer Co., the predecessor of Sapporo Breweries Ltd., and Okura ...

Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri, which began over 1,000 years ago, as he unravels the mystery of the decorations and meets the foreign volunteers.

(Mainichi/Yoko Minami) KYOTO -- At the Gion shopping district and elsewhere in this west Japan city, solar-powered "smart" garbage boxes were installed on Feb. 14, capable of automatically ...