SAKAIMINATO, Tottori Prefecture—A road lined with 177 bronze statues of Shigeru Mizuki ... The drama was a morning serial, screened by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK). “Gegege no Nyobo ...
A survey by NHK and Tsugawa Yasuo, a professor emeritus at Takasaki Keizai University who specializes in landmark research, identified at least 15 Kannon statues taller than 25 meters in Japan.