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

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 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...

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.

Buseoksa Temple in Seosan, South Korea, shows the seated Buddha statue on May 10, 2025, before its return to Japan's Kannonji temple. (Kyodo) SEOSAN, South Korea (Kyodo) -- A South Korean temple ...

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 ...

A statue of Buddha from the Goryeo Dynasty that was returned by a court order to Japan after being smuggled into South Korea 13 years ago arrived on the Japanese island of Tsushima ...

Know about Buddha Purnima 2025—its date, spiritual significance, and the key rituals that honour Lord Buddha’s birth, ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea ... the relic following a 100-day ceremony through Buddha’s Birthday on May 5 that included public viewing ...