A silhouette of Buddha emerges against the sun as a thick fog covers fields and houses in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 30, 2022. The Ushiku Daib Please view the main text area of the page by ...

The 11.3-meter-tall copper statue represents an image of Amitabha Buddha and is designated by the government as a national treasure. The repair work is the first in 55 years to be carried out on ...

The face of the six-metre-tall Buddha rock sculpture, once vandalised and disfigured by militants in 2007, has been repaired. Photo: Kyodo.

The Taliban tried to demolish the nearly 20-foot-tall sculpture in 2007 and managed to disfigure a portion of the Buddha’s face. The issue garnered criticism from the international community, as ...

ASUKA: Most of the face of the seventh-century Asuka Great Buddha, the main image at Asukadera temple, is original, despite historical records suggesting it was damaged in a fire centuries later ...