Len Brackett, a Northern California woodworker who trained as a temple carpenter in Kyoto, said, “Just go to Japan.” So I signed up at a Japanese language school, got my visa and went there.

MATSUYAMA -- A tea ceremony event using a "mobile tea ceremony room" crafted by carpenters specializing in building Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples and palaces in Japan that is traveling around ...

Jon Stollenmeyer, 42, grew up in Ohio and studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati. In 2005, he visited a ...