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 ...

The board said the statue was made during the Edo Period (1603-1867) and is the biggest wooden statue of Hideyoshi (1537-1598) ever discovered in the country, except for those created in the ...

With close to 2 million people having attended pre-Covid, the festival is one of Tokyo’s largest ... found a statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon (the Japanese name for Guanyin, the Goddess of ...

A multi-eyed mascot, a vast wooden Grand Ring, 160 countries and regions strutting their stuff, and robots and sushi galore: ...

A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, on March 26. The statue is 17 ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

Portuguese sailors en route to Japan in the late 16th century ... Lukang Tienhou honors the deity Matsu, goddess of the sea, whose statue has darkened from years of collecting incense residue.

At nearly 400 feet, Sanjusangendo Hall is the longest wooden structure in Japan (there are archery ... full set of 1,000 wooden statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy.

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

The world's largest statue, which stands nearly 600 feet tall, is located on Sadhu Bet Island in the Narmada River in the town of Kevadia, Gujarat, India. When first unveiled in 2010, it was ...

The number of Japanese nationals fell by a record 898,000 to 120.3 million, the largest drop since records began in 1950. The sharp contraction highlights the mounting pressures Japan faces in ...