With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

Here’s how to explore the best of Japan’s capital, from summer festivals and less-visited neighborhoods to day trips to World ...

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Japan is on the bucket list for many world ... a nearly 50-foot-tall Great Buddha statue. This UNESCO World Heritage site is part of a sprawling temple complex that encompasses part of Nara ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

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 ...

USHIKU: Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday (Sept 9 ...

An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju ...