Ushiku (Japan) (AFP) – Emerging from the head of the world’s tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners blast the imposing Japanese statue with water guns. Kazuyoshi Taguchi and Kazumi Minowa have been cleaning the 120-metre-tall Ushiku Daibatsu monument – completed in 1993 – for nearly a quarter of a century, at the start of which neither had a background in climbing.
