South Korean temple loses Buddha statue ownership case to Japan

A South Korean appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 belongs to the temple, overturning a lower court ruling that had acknowledged a South Korean temple's ownership of it.The Daejeon High Court, however, left the issue of returning the 14th-century statue to the Japanese temple to the South Korean government, which is currently in possession of it, calling for Seoul to take international norms into account.The original 2017 ruling by the Daejeon District Court ordered the stolen statue from Kannonji, a temple on Japan's Tsushima Island, to …READ FULL ARTICLE