This is a Buddhist Deity, he/she sits on a throne, with a lotus flower
base and turtles decorating it.  He/she also had a nimbus holding a
lotus flower.  Can anyone translate this to English and what temple is
this deity enshrined in Japan?

A search for "Ichibataoyakushi" on Google and other search engines
comes up with no documents.  That’s because your spelling contains an
"o" in the middle.  If you search for "Ichibata-Yakushi", you will
have the answers you seek.

Almost every Internet reference to "Ichibata-Yakushi" will lead you to
the home page of the Ichibata-Yakushi Buddhist Temple (
http://www.ichibata.org/e-index.html ), which is located on the
Shimane peninsula in Japan.

The name of the deity – and the Buddha statute in the main shrine of
this temple - is actually "Yakushi-nyorai".  The name is often
translated as "physician of souls," or less frequently as "master of
remedies".  (The story of this statue’s healing powers is told on the
temple’s web site.)  As a search for "Yakushi-nyorai" on Google
reveals, some other Buddhist temples in Japan also contain
Yakushi-nyorai statues.

-justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

"ichibata-yakushi"
"yakushi-nyorai"

Excellent answer, I thought that this knowledge was gone after my
grandmother died.  No one in Hawaii had any knowledge of this
information.  Good Job!!

I believe that the Buddhist deity you're talking about is Guanyin, the
Bodhisattva of Compassion.  In Chinese Buddhism, she is actually a
man.
Check out a statue of him:
http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=13969&did=300