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.