Lifestyle & Health
Rush of missives to living and dead entrusted to Japan's 'letter temple' amid pandemic
FUNABASHI, Chiba -- In a storage room in this city near Tokyo, small boxes neatly line the shelves, and in each box is a letter, and sometimes a keeps Full article
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