By JIRO TSUTSUI/ Staff Writer
March 24, 2021 at 08:00 JST
Akinari Muranishi, who played a major part in the project to reproduce the Rikushuhonsha, poses with the gravestone for Hiraishi Kuheiji, seen at left, in Choshoin temple in the Chuocho district of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture. (Jiro Tsutsui)
HIKONE, Shiga Prefecture-- Eighteen-year-old Akinari Muranishi proudly put the pedal to the metal, or wood, to be more exact, on what appeared to be a mashup of a boat and a tricycle, sending it down the school corridor. [Read More]
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