Stolen Buddhist Statue in Tsushima, Ruling by South Korean District Court 

The Daejeon District Court ruled in a lawsuit filed by Buseoksa temple in Seosan, central South Korea, which claimed ownership of the statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, a tangible cultural property designated by Nagasaki Prefecture, stolen from Kannonji temple in Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 2012 and brought to South Korea, that the Korean government should not return the statue to Japan but hand it over to the temple. The decision accepted the claim of Buseoksa temple that the statue had been looted by wakō, Japanese pirates in the 14^th century. The South Korean government, which had stated that there was little evidence that the temple was the original owner, appealed the decision on the same day. (Japanese)