The Buddhist statue at the center of this controversy, the "Seated Statue of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva," holds a special place in Japan as a designated cultural property of Nagasaki Prefecture. It ...

A black mark on a stone artifact believed to be the oldest known written character in Japan was likely made with a modern permanent marker. A research team that included the Archaeological ...

01:24 Core Kyoto delves into the city's sense of beauty as seen by the dedicated experts who unearth value in artifacts for posterity. To its north lies one of Japan's finest antique communities ...

22 stolen artifacts have been returned to Japan after they were looted in WWII The items include scrolls that depict Okinawan royalty and ancient maps A Massachusetts family found the artifacts ...

Seoul is verifying news reports that in the 1960s Tokyo covered up the extent of its possession of Korean cultural properties ...