Archaeologists in Turkey's Gobekli and Karahan Tepe discovered a statue of a giant man clutching his genitals, along with ...

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 ...

A survey by NHK and landmark expert Tsugawa Yasuo identified at least 15 giant Kannon statues in Japan. Tsugawa says the statues built during the bubble era were less about religious significance ...

A pro-Donald Trump march took place in the Japanese city of Osaka at the weekend. Participants in the event wore MAGA caps ...

NOTO, Ishikawa Prefecture--A giant squid statue here funded by a central government subsidy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer being derided as a colossal waste of taxpayers' money by ...

The horrifying moment a giant statue of Buddha collapsed killing a monk has been captured on film. The 29ft (9m) statue was being built for good luck at the Kaeng Khan Sung Monastery in eastern ...

There are more than 20,000 large and small Buddhist and Christian stone markers and unmarked graves of war dead, as well as a giant statue of Kannon, the goddess of mercy in Japanese Buddhism ...