One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States springs up unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in ...

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

(AP photo/Luis Andres Henao) Daniel Choi prostates in front of a giant statue of the Buddha at the ... you have new Japanese Buddhists coming in, you have Nepalese Buddhists.