HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the ... in places such as Yamagata Prefecture and Tokyo. It was enshrined at the Daibutsuden hall of Sairenji ...

Naka and Imura are graduates from the Conservation of Wooden Sculptures course at the Tokyo University of the ... helping to restore 7.5-meter-tall Buddha statues at Nikko Rinnoji Temple.

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 ...