Colored glass slide photo. From the collection of Japanese images of James A. B. Scherer. He was the president of the Throop College of Technology (former name of the California Institute of ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined ... four meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.

The city of Kamakura is one of Japan’s ancient capitals ... Throughout it all, the great Buddha remained standing. Take a good long look at the statue during your visit, but don't bother ...

I visited the Great Buddha of Kamakura, peeped pandas at the Ueno Zoo, saw the skyline from the top of Osaka Castle, and even learned how to hurl throwing stars at the fun (if touristy ...