The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji temple in Ando, Nara Prefecture, and will be temporarily sent back to Hiroshima for the first time in 67 years to go ...

Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... "we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies ...

Using high-pressure water guns, the pair blasted dust and bird droppings off the Ushiku Daibutsu monument ... "we had no idea how to clean the statue and faced many difficulties, like our bodies ...

It was with such thoughts that I visited Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki Prefecture. It’s genuinely gargantuan--one of the tallest Buddha statues in the world, seemingly soaring to the heavens with a ...