Katsuo-ji Temple is known as the "Daruma temple" due to its large collection of the dolls. - Rebecca Cairns/CNN At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree ...

LITTLE ROCK — She’s more than just a doll. Miss Kyoto-shi, the 33-inch-tall, handcrafted Japanese doll back on display at the Museum of Discovery in downtown Little Rock has played many roles in her ...

SPENCER — Noriko Gordon’s curiosity became more than she could bear after reading a 1997 article in a Japanese newspaper about the return of a doll from the United States to Japan. The doll was a part ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his two-day official visit to Tokyo on Friday, August 29–30. Along the way, he has met Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and took part in the 15th India-Japan ...

SPOKANE — In the late 1920s, things were not so good between Japan and the United States. Long before World War II, tensions mounted — over the treatment of Japanese immigrants here, and the ...

The chief priest of a Japanese temple gifted Daruma Doll to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as PM Modi reached Japan for his two-day visit. Daruma Doll is an iconic cultural symbol in Japan with its ...

Draw, wish, and burn: Check how to use a Daruma doll, its significance and history. When one goes to Japan, they cannot miss this oblong red figure in every shop, nook, and cranny of the Asian country ...

The Yokohama Doll Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture is one of the largest doll museums in Japan. The museum’s collection showcases 1,300 dolls from 140 countries around the world, including traditional ...

At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic ...