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.

however tourism has dropped considerably due to the pandemic A seaside town in Japan has raised eyebrows after it used funding from an emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a ...

OSAKA -- The Harry Potter area at Universal Studios Japan (USJ), which catapulted the ... Participants can see statues of the first principal of Hogwarts and of a griffin, which triggers entry ...

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 ...

However, the Supreme Court ruled in October 2023 that the statute of limitations had expired and that ownership of the statue belonged to Japan. The statue will be returned to the National ...

Japan has spoken out against the installation of the statue since its unveiling ceremony, but it has remained resolutely in place for the past five months. When asked how locals and tourists react ...

SEOUL—A South Korean temple has reiterated its agreement to return a stolen Buddhist statue to its rightful ... in South Korea before shipping it to Japan. Buseoksa temple, located in South ...

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 ...