Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784. During this period the framework of national government was consolidated and Nara enjoyed great prosperity, emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero ... It was greeted with great fanfare at the time. Large memorial services were held for atomic bomb victims on Aug.

The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

The organization that contracted them was, at that time, the only employer of wooden Buddha restorers in Japan ... the statue dating as far back as six centuries ago. Numajiri found his great ...

Returning from a Japanese funeral ... It’s genuinely gargantuan--one of the tallest Buddha statues in the world, seemingly soaring to the heavens with a height of 120 meters.

The infant she holds is said to be 15 meters long, the same height as the famous Great Buddha statue at ... Now, the statue poses a safety problem. Japan's building code requires structures ...

Today this cast-bronze statue is known throughout the world as the Nara Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, and Tōdaiji is both the principal attraction in Nara, drawing many people from throughout Japan ...