A statue of a powerful 16th-century warlord and samurai outside a shopping arcade in Japan has been beheaded, a shop official and media reports said Wednesday.

The statue is of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who completed the unification of Japan in the 16th century, and is also known for his failed attempts to invade the Korean peninsula.

The association of the Endoji shopping arcade in Nagoya regards the statue as a symbolic figure of the mall, and "is considering filing a damage report with police," a member told AFP.

There was no information about who damaged the statue for what reasons, he added.

The vandalism came after similar damages to other warlord sculptures outside the same shopping arcade in central Japan that were reportedly donated by a real estate company in 2013.

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