The 54-year-old musician lives in Tokyo and plans to erect a statue ... at a monument in the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii. Dec. 7 marks 83 years since the Imperial Japanese forces ...

Korea and Japan reached a historic agreement Monday, to resolve disputes over Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. The accord signed by the foreign ...

When he and Kazumi Minowa, 51, first took on the annual duty, "we had no idea how to clean the statue and ... an important place for Japanese Buddhism. Visitors to the monument can take an ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to soon release his government’s position on a bronze statue set up in Glendale, ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

Los Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker introduced a motion Wednesday calling for the preservation of two buildings from the ...

Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the father of Japanese folklore studies, was born in this town of 20,000 people. The town has striking statues of Yokai ( supernatural ...

The statue of the Kanzeon Bodhisattva was stolen from the Japanese temple in 2012 by South Korean burglars. The thieves were arrested the following year and the statue was confiscated by the South ...

however tourism has dropped considerably due to the pandemic A seaside town in Japan has raised eyebrows after it used funding from an emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a ...

SEOUL, July 28 (AP): A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolising victims of sexual slavery by Japan’s wartime military is the latest subject of ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...