By TAKASHI KONISHI/ Staff Writer
April 11, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Corrugated boxes full of messages written under the Great Buddha dream letter program are taken out via a door on the statue’s back at Todaiji temple in Nara on Aug. 7, 2022, for them to be returned after 20 years as described on their containers. (Hideyuki Kaneshige)
NARA--Yoshiaki Fujioka, who runs a real estate agency in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, picked up two delivered letters that were written long ago and stored for the past two decades. [Read More]
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