In 2023, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Buseok Temple in Seosan, 98 kilometers southwest of Seoul, to return the 50.5-centimeter-tall statue, stolen by South Koreans from the Japanese temple.

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

OSAKA--A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine here, providing a clue to how people worshipped him during his successor's era.

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be ...

A 57m (187ft) Buddhist statue dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in central Japan has been draped with a giant face covering. Temple managers in Aizuwakamatsu plan to keep the figure ...

He decided to make the gigantic statue of Virgin Mary as a memorial in 1981, when John Paul II became the first pope to visit Japan, with Nagasaki included in his itinerary. Oyamatsu first created ...

Now, the statue poses a safety problem. Japan's building code requires structures that are 60 meters or higher to be fitted with aviation obstruction lights. It has been some time since the Kaga ...

Imura and Morisaki promptly agreed. Naka Ai carves a replacement halo for a Buddha statue. They called their venture Sanjoudou, which in Japanese means "combining the power of three" and based ...

SEOUL, July 28 (AP): A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolising victims of sexual slavery by Japan’s wartime military is the latest subject of ...