World Heritage temple in Nara holds drill after Okinawa castle fire

A fire drill was held Monday at the World Heritage-listed Yakushiji Temple in the western Japan city of Nara, following a blaze that destroyed Shuri Castle in Okinawa last year.Ahead of the country's Cultural Property Fire Prevention Day on Sunday, about 100 Buddhist priests and firefighters checked procedures to bring out cultural assets and injured people to safety under the assumption that a fire had broken out in the temple's Kondo main hall. A dummy Buddhist statue was used in the drill.The drill came before the temple completes this spring a nine-year repair project of the East Pagoda…READ FULL ARTICLE