Setsuryo Tanaka, chief priest of Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki ...

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 ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue will travel from here to Japan on May 10 after Korea’s Supreme Court ruled it should be ...

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 seated statue of the Kanzeon Bodhisattva was stolen from Kannonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 2012 by South Korean burglars. The statue is designated as a tangible cultural ...

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 ...