Art restitution
Stolen Avalokitesvara statue returns from South Korea to Tsushima
A fourteenth-century Buddhist statue reached its Japanese temple after years of litigation in South Korea. It had been taken in 2012; the Korean Supreme Court ordered its return in 2023.
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