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 ...

A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee ... It was returned to Utsunomiya after accomplishing its task of making the city famous. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the ...

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.