At one time, Oigo Works had 60 to 70 percent of the market share for temple bells. The ringing of the “joya no kane” bells on New Year’s Eve is based on the Buddhist belief in the 108 ...

Five children giggle with delight. And ringing down cobbled lanes, across fields and through the wooded hills and valleys, are the bells—single steeple bells and bundles of carillon bells ...