Evoking Japanese aspirations of national renewal on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake is the newly refreshed visage of Kamakura’s Daibutsu, or Great Buddha. The iconic sculpture ...

The Great Buddha of Kamakura, which will undergo full-scale maintenance work. Photo Credit: Washington Post/The Yomiuri Shimbun TOKYO: The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a colossal copper image of Amitabha ...

The face of the great Buddha statue at Kotoku-in temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, is seen on March 22, 2016. (Mainichi) The great Buddha statue in Japan's old capital Kamakura, Kanagawa ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture—Tourists flock to the Kotoku-in Buddhist temple here to marvel at and shoot photos of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, one of the most iconic images of Japan. However, the ...

Kamakura, capital of Japan's first shogunate (1185-1333), once angled for a UNESCO-shaped stamp of approval. Under the title "Kamakura, Home of the Samurai" there were a number of landmarks included ...

The Great Buddhas of Nara and Kamakura in the west and east of Japan are both impressive, although the former is considerably larger. Since Buddhism was first introduced in Japan around the sixth ...

Tokyo is one of the world’s biggest and most populated cities. The greater Tokyo area is home to more than 40 million people, ...

TOKYO — The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a colossal copper image of Amitabha Buddha in Kamakura, Japan, will undergo full-scale maintenance work from Jan. 13 to March 10. Visitors will not be able to ...