NAGAOKAKYO, Kyoto Prefecture--An 11-face Kannon Buddhist statue kept at Otokunidera temple ... is only the third known example in Japan of an ancient wooden deity having been carved during a ...

South Korea has yet to return an ancient Buddhist statue one year after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it belongs to a Japanese temple. The Japanese government is said to have made ...

emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese culture. The city's historic monuments - Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and the excavated remains of the great Imperial Palace - provide a vivid picture of ...

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 ...

The 9.5-centimeter-tall statue was concealed inside a wooden statute of Goho Doji, a deity in the form of a child that is said to obey high priests in protecting Buddhist teachings. The 76.5-cm ...

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 ...

On Monday they carried rope and buckets of water up ladders to the very top of the Buddha, which is three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty without its plinth. They then descended through the ...