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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...