The women first met in 2015 at the World Heritage site Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture, where they were helping to restore 7.5-meter-tall Buddha statues at Nikko Rinnoji Temple. After the two-year ...

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 ...

They tried to erase all traces of a rich pre-Islamic past and ordered the destruction of ancient statues, including the ... rebuilding some of the ancient Buddha sculptures that were destroyed ...