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 ...

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... Yonhap News English Story by NAM, SANG HYUN ...

And the retrieved statue had deteriorated so much that it was difficult to store. Although now a part of Japanese baseball lore, KFC Holdings Japan decided to dispose of the statue. On March 8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...