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 ...

Harry Low meets Gyoro Nagase has been based at the London Peace pagoda since 1985.

It's morning in Battersea Park in London, and I'm standing near the river, next to the Peace Pagoda. Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over ...

Battersea Park’s aptly named Cherry Tree Avenue offers one of the most spectacular cherry blossom displays in the city. The avenue, running near the Peace Pagoda, creates a stunning pink tunnel ...