<P> A 15 foot high replica of the Statue of Liberty is at the western entrance of the village of Arraba in Israel, near a local restaurant . </P> <P> At a highway intersection in Jerusalem called "New York Square," there is an abstract skeletal replica of the statue . </P> <P> The French Statue of Liberty from the Île aux Cygnes came to Odaiba, Tokyo, from April 1998 to May 1999 in commemoration of "The French year in Japan". Because of its popularity, in 2000 a replica of the French Statue of Liberty was erected at the same place . Also in Japan, a small Statue of Liberty is in the Amerika - mura (American Village) shopping district in Osaka, Japan . Another replica is in Oirase near the town of Shimoda south of Misawa in Aomori Prefecture, where the United States has an 8,000 - person U.S. Air Force base . A replica of the Statue of Liberty in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, was damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . </P> <P> There are replicas of the Statue of Liberty in Bahria Town, Lahore, and also in Bahria Town Phase 8, Islamabad . </P>

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