Eiji Oyamatsu, 88, who has an atelier in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, is working alone on the statue and using his own money. Volunteers in Minami-Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, were so moved ...

“I’m hoping that the statue will be returned to us as soon as possible,” Setsuryo Tanaka, 46, chief priest of Kannonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, told the Daejeon High Court in ...