What does Asura mean in Japanese?

What does "Asura" mean in Japanese, and how would you translate it into English?

The Buddhist deity comes to mind, although it is more commonly pronounced Ashura in Japanese. In particular, the statue of Ashura, stored at the Kofukuji Temple in Nara, is very famous:
https://www.google.com/search?q=���C��&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch

I would translate it as "the Buddhist deity Ashura" in English.

If you are talking about the name of the god in Indian myth/Buddhism, it is spelled (and pronounced) as "Ashura" in Japanese, written in kanji as ���C��, and, well, that's what it is.

BTW, there is a very famous "Ashura statue" in Kofukuji temple in Nara prefecture, that made in the Nara period(710-794 C.E.).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00ITidEylU
http://www.kohfukuji.com/property/cultural/001.html
http://goo.gl/Bjg2f