NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

The world’s largest bronze statue of Buddha is so huge that the famed Kamakura ... It is part of the series "Lisa’s Wanderings Around Japan," which depicts various places across the country ...

Visitors can climb the six floors within the statue's hollow interior and peer out the eyes of one of the world’s largest Buddha statues. From the hilltop located along the Bagua Mountain range ...