From paintings of wide-eyed characters to quirky drawings, this blockbuster show of Yoshitomo Nara is a fulfilling offering.

A move to cut down acorn-bearing trees in Japan’s Nara Park has sparked concern among researchers about the survival of the attraction’s free-roaming deer during the harsh winter.

Nara offers a unique journey into Japan’s ancient soul, providing tangible connections to its formative past amid charming, free-roaming deer. It’s an unforgettable destination where history ...

Trash, though, has become a life-or-death issue for the deer: nine died in 2019 after eating plastic waste that was left on the ground by tourists. A tourist feeds one of the famous deer of Nara.

Trash cans were removed from Nara’s parks in 1985 to prevent deer from trying to eat out of them. Signs throughout the city cautioned people not to litter as eating trash or food outside of ...

That said, it is not controversial to make the following statement: There is more to Japan than just Kyoto and Tokyo, both already overflowing with tourists. Even Osaka, once the third-fiddle city ...

I feed a few deer at Nara Park but feel compelled to joke with the others, "Oh deer, I have none for you." The centuries-old Todai-ji is one of Japan's best-known temples and has an enormous ...

Right outside of Kyoto, Japan, is Nara, a picturesque city that’s home to some of the cutest and most polite animals in the world— the wild deer of Nara Deer Park! These deer are known to bow ...

Oh, deer: Japan’s Nara boosts police patrols to curb animal abuse The move follows a video of a tourist in Nara’s main park kicking one of the animals, considered sacred in the ancient city ...

As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan’s temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone paths, collecting plastic waste that threatens the ...