Noto, which is known for its flying squid, hopes the giant statue will draw back tourists.
TOKYO (Reuters) - A controversial statue symbolizing “comfort women” was withdrawn from a Japanese art exhibition on Saturday after organizers received security threats, amid a resurgence of tensions between Japan and South Korea rooted in their bitter wartime past. Comfort women is a euphemism for those, many of them Korean, forced to work in Japan’s World War Two brothels and is a highly emotion
こんばんわー そいやこないだ室生寺を訪れた時に、道端に「ぬおっ・・!!」と思うものが目に入りまして・・・・(゜゜)! なんや・・村人総出で・・村のなんやらの催しかえ・・(゜゜)!? と、思ったら・・・ 案山子なんですね・・・・!!^^; なんや遠目でぱっと見で見ると・・非常にリアルだから・・・ フツーに村の農家の方々かと・・思っちゃいました^^; こんなんフツーに畑仕事してるとしか・・見えへんし・・・^^; よく道端におばあちゃんが椅子に腰かけて休憩してたりしてますもんね・・^^; 何が驚いたか、って・・・ 案山子のリアルさはもとより・・・ グーグルマップに載ってたってことだよね^^;!笑 「Uda Doll Statue」って・・・何だろう・・誰かが(村の人?)がアート的な観点から展開してるとか・・?? めちゃ不思議・・・! 時として案山子見てドキぃ・・!!とする時、ありません・・^^;
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A Giant Headless Buddha Statue Discovered Under a Residential Complex in China A 9-meter-high Buddha statue without a head was recently discovered in a residential complex in Chongqing of southwest China. Surrounded by tall buildings, the statue was covered by vegetation, with a residential structure built on top of it. Most residents were unaware of it until the vegetation was removed due to a re
A coastal town in western Japan has drawn ire on social media for using some of the coronavirus relief funds it was given by the government to build a statue of a giant squid in the hopes of boosting tourism. The town of Noto in Ishikawa Prefecture was awarded 800 million yen ($7.3 million) in grants from the central government as part of an aid program aimed at boosting local economies amid the p
Before and after of the disastrously restored statue, which adorns a high street bank in the Spanish city of Palencia © Antonio Guzmán Capel / Facebook Conservation experts in Spain are once again calling for stricter regulations within the sector after yet another work has been irreparably damaged by an amateur restorer. Adorning the facade of a high street bank in the north-western city of Palen
Curators call the exhibition's premature cancellation due to external pressure "the worst censorship incident in Japan's postwar period.” Neon Genesis Evangelion and Summer Wars character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto attracted criticism from anime fans around the world over a series of tweets he posted on Friday concerning the “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?” historical art exhibition at the Aichi
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish businessman has bought a statue symbolizing women forced to work in Japanese military brothels which was removed from an exhibition in Japan after organizers received threats over the piece. The “Statue of a Girl Of Peace” symbolizes the “comfort women”, a euphemism referring to women, many of them Korean, forced into the brothels before and during World War Two. Estim
Egypt was at the center of a trade route that connected the Roman Empire with many areas of the ancient world, including India. There were several Roman-era harbors on the Red Sea coast of Egypt involved in this commerce, the most important of which was Berenike. Ships from India arrived there with products, such as pepper, semi-precious stones, textiles, and ivory. At Berenike, they were offloade
By Park Boram SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean sculpture symbolizing Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean and Asian women will be put back on display Tuesday at a major Japanese art show in Nagoya after its controversial withdrawal from the show, organizers said. The girl statue representing Korean women who were forced into sexual service for the imperial Japanese military during World Wa
On the second Monday of each month, Jim-Bob Heimberg walks across the street from his family’s flower shop café to a park in the quiet Berlin neighborhood of Moabit. There, Heimberg, a tall, 27-year-old German, places a crown of flowers atop a statue of a small Korean girl. Crafted in bronze and granite by artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung, the artwork is known as the Statue of Peace. Althoug
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A Confederate memorial in America's most honoured cemetery is coming down. But what should be done with it? When Judith Ezekiel was five years old, her grandfather drove her and her two brothers to Arlington National Cemetery, to see a statue made by their relative. Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Judith's cousin four times removed, was a renowned Jewish sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Hi
Evie Swire, at Ringstead Bay, Dorset. Photograph: SWNSAnya Pearson, Evie’s mother, said plans to place the statue near the giant anchor viewpoint on Lyme Regis seafront were resisted, and the project was then added to a long list of applications amid the pandemic. Another proposal, to place the statue on a cart road below the Marine theatre, was also rejected. “But now we finally have the perfect
The statue portrays a woman in a transparent dress with her right arm over her breasts A bronze statue of a scantily-clad woman to honour a 19th Century poem has sparked a sexism row in Italy, with politicians calling for its removal. The sculpture in the southern town of Sapri is a tribute to La Spigolatrice di Sapri (The Gleaner of Sapri), written by Luigi Mercantini in 1857.
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Say Hello to Sunshine、約6年ぶりの新曲「Statue」リリース&Official Video公開! 東京の5人組ロックバンドSay Hello to Sunshineが本日7月8日(水)、約6年ぶりとなる新曲「Statue」をデジタルリリースした。 本作は、HIP LAND MUSICによるデジタルディストリビューション&プロモーションサービス「FRIENDSHIP.」がデジタルリリースをサポートしている。 Say Hello to Sunshineは昨年の11月にオリジナルメンバー(Vo.Ryoga、Gt.Keisuke、Gt.Yushi、Ba.Akira、Dr.Takuya)での活動を再開しており、6月には過去作の配信を開始している。 6年ぶりの新作となる「Statue」は、キャッチーでポップでありながらラウドな一面をも感じさせる、現在のSay Hello to
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