A gentle-faced giant Buddha statue with "sunglasses" in this central Japan city, north of Nagoya, has become a popular ...

A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South ... insisting that it had been looted by "wako" Japanese pirates in the 14th century. In a lawsuit over the statue in South Korea, the Supreme ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 hand ...

The Bodhisatva got trapped in legal dispute after a South Korean temple filed a lawsuit, claiming it as the rightful owner ...

Seoul, May 10 (Jiji Press)--A Buddha statue stolen from a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, in 2012 was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple ...

Imura and Morisaki promptly agreed. Naka Ai carves a replacement halo for a Buddha statue. They called their venture Sanjoudou, which in Japanese means "combining the power of three" and based ...

The nine Korean smugglers who took the statue out of Japan also stole a standing Buddha statue in stone, but Korean prosecutors returned it in 2015, as there was no evidence that it originated in ...

May 12 (Jiji Press)--A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 and taken to South Korea was returned to a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, on Monday.

A bronze statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, stolen from Kannonji Temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in 2012 ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...