THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 12, 2024 at 16:45 JST
A banner advertising the Dai Ogonten event at the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo on April 11 (Arata Mitsui)
A thief brazenly made off with a tea bowl of pure gold with a 10.4-million-yen ($68,000) price tag during a sales event held at the upscale Takashimaya department store in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district. [Read More]
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