Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... "we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies ...

Using high-pressure water guns, the pair yesterday blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... “we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties ...

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 ...