By JIRO TSUTSUI/ Staff Writer
June 2, 2020 at 19:39 JST
The Karamon gate of Hogonji temple in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, on May 30 after repair work was completed (Sayuri Ide)
NAGAHAMA, Shiga Prefecture--An island on Lake Biwako is giving up its last secrets. It emerges that a temple and an adjacent shrine there were likely constructed from a bridge that was part of feudal warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Osaka Castle. [Read More]
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