Mindar, the new robotic priest in Japan's Kodaiji Buddhist temple. Whatever your feelings about AI might be, the fact is it’s here to stay and will be around long after you’re pushing up daisies.

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, is getting a modern-day high-tech collaborator: artificial intelligence.

A man has been arrested after threatening to set fire to one of Japan’s oldest Shinto shrines, following backlash over an ...

The chatbots, including BuddhaBot, launched in March 2021 with a Japanese translation of the Sutta Nipata, and later versions, Vasubandhu-Bot and Shinran-Bot, reflect various schools of Buddhist ...

In May 2025, Japan enacted a landmark piece of legislation — the Act on the Promotion of Research, Development and Utilisation of Artificial Intelligence-Related Technologies — with a clear ...