The Reverend Gyoro Nagase has been based at the London Peace pagoda since it opened in 1985. Having now spent more time in the capital than his native Japan, the 72-year-old says "London is very ...

and peace,” Kurisu said in the release. Carpentry, roofing and masonry restoration of the five-story pagoda was performed by the park department’s structural maintenance crew from 2020 to 2022.

Cradled sublimely amid undulating Himalayan foothills lies the picturesque hill station Darjeeling, beckoning travellers ...