A roof tile manufacturer in Uki ... Each of the shachihoko statues stand 119-centimeters tall and weigh 100 kilograms. Kumamoto Castle was heavily damaged by the quakes. The damaged structures ...

KUMAMOTO -- Financial aid is pouring in ... On April 30, sightseers surveyed the castle and its collapsed roof tiles and tilted keep from afar. "Look what's happened to it," said Yukiko Uchino ...

KUMAMOTO--The interior of Kumamoto Castle's main tower reopened to the public on June 28 following the completion of repairs from the 2016 earthquakes here that knocked off roof tiles and ...

KUMAMOTO--Left devastated and in ruins by a spate of strong earthquakes seven years ago, iconic Kumamoto Castle is rising from ... in addition to the succession of roof tiles and walls that ...

Kumamoto Castle, a major tourist attraction, saw stone walls crumble and roof tiles fall off the castle tower. Starting with the statue of Luffy installed in front of the prefectural office ...

Kumamoto Castle was originally built in 1607 by Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611), a warlord who acquired a reputation for his castle construction efforts. Considered one of the three great Japanese ...

On October 5, a ceremony in the castle’s expansive grounds commemorated its partial reopening to the public, though the full restoration work is expected to take many years.

But it is, in fact, a mission that’ll eventually see the blocks placed back into the fabric of the city’s most iconic structure: Kumamoto Castle, a fortification known throughout Japan because ...

Completed in 1607, the castle complex covers a wide area and features dozens of buildings, gates and turrets around its main keep, in a design ordered by Kato, a seasoned samurai commander.