statues

A controversial statue erected close to the Japanese Consulate in Busan to symbolize Korean laborers forcibly taken to Japan during the colonial era is removed.

Brussels authorities recently discovered that a fault in the 400-year-old plumbing of its Manneken-Pis landmark was causing it to pee away 2.5 tons of water a day. In 2019, such waste is an environmental no-no. A missing part in the guttering under the diminutive statue's fountain ...

A pair of bare-breasted mermaid statues have been given the family values treatment at an Indonesian amusement park where officials slipped golden tube tops over their chests. While the nude statues have been on display for years at Jakarta's Ancol Dreamland, a recent policy aimed ...

A statue commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki began undergoing restoration Monday, with the city hoping to unveil it in its original blue in late March ahead of the August anniversary of the attack. The Peace Statue, a 9.7-meter bronze sculpture of a ...

A statue symbolizing forced Korean workers taken to Japan during its colonial rule may be erected Tuesday in front of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan, South Korea's second-largest city. The Japanese government has told Seoul that it is opposed to such moves, and the ...

Preservation and repair work has been completed on all 1,001 statues of 1,000-armed Kannon bodhisattva at Kyoto's Sanjusangendo Hall, ending a 45-year wait. The last set of overhauled Buddhist statues was installed at the popular sightseeing spot on Friday. It took 45 years to repair the ...

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a potential presidential candidate, rebuffs Tokyo’s demand to remove the “comfort women” statues, saying the wartime issue is about more than money.