Eiji Oyamatsu, 88, who has an atelier in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, is working alone on the statue and using his own money. Volunteers in Minami-Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, were so moved ...

“I’m hoping that the statue will be returned to us as soon as possible,” Setsuryo Tanaka, 46, chief priest of Kannonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, told the Daejeon High Court in ...

Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki ... ceremony to send back a Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva ...

The church, about 500 yards from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and some statues survived the nuclear bombing.

The statue was modeled after Sadako Sasaki ... But one thing has long been a mystery to Nishimura's team: the "Houses for Nagasaki" project. Schmoe and the volunteers also built houses in the ...