It was with such thoughts that I visited Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki Prefecture ... The world’s largest bronze statue of Buddha is so huge that the famed Kamakura and Nara Buddha statues seem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...