Japan's monks are taking to social media to show how flexible they are in their traditional garb in response to one of their own being fined for driving in a robe. The monk was on his way to a ...

Monks across Japan have been posting pictures of themselves leaping, skipping and juggling in their traditional robes in defence of a colleague stopped by police who thought wearing the garb made ...

Skateboarding, jumping rope and wielding lightsabers aren't things we typically expect monks to do. That was until September, when a monk in Fukui Prefecture was ticketed for wearing his traditional ...