SENDAI—The front half of the 100-meter-tall Sendai Daikannon here has turned pink during the first full-scale repair work on the usually shiny white standing Buddhist statue. Pink paint has been ...

TSU, Japan >> A massive statue of a snake — the Chinese zodiac sign for 2025 — has been installed at Tatsumizu Shrine in Tsu.

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 ...

Sendai, on the Japanese island of Honshu, is the largest city in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan. It was founded in 1601 by Date Masamune, a samurai whose name is known to all Japanese.