Over the past seven years, the women have worked on more than 70 wooden Buddha statues throughout Japan. Examples of Sanjoudou's restoration work The restoration process is labor-intensive and ...

but the workers studied Nio statues by Inpa at five sites in Japan, including in Ishikawa Prefecture, and conducted additional research to narrow down how their faces looked. The restoration ...

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.

The upgraded plaza builds on the restoration ... views of the bronze Buddha statue and the Hagiwara Gate. Another path was added through the Sunken Garden. “The Japanese Tea Garden is one ...

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 ...