The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...

Tsushima, Nagasaki Pref., May 12 (Jiji Press)--A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of ...

Buseoksa Temple in Seosan, South Korea, shows the seated Buddha statue on May 10, 2025, before its return to Japan's Kannonji temple. (Kyodo) SEOSAN, South Korea (Kyodo) -- A South Korean temple ...