SEOUL - South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a South Korean temple, affirming a high court ruling that a Japanese temple is the rightful owner of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from the temple on an island in southwestern Japan in 2012.
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