FEATURE: Tokyo's monk-run bar loosens inhibitions, teaches Buddhism

FEATURE: Tokyo's monk-run bar loosens inhibitions, teaches Buddhism

Buddhist monk Yoshinobu Fujioka talks to foreign customers at a monk-run bar, VOWZ BAR, in Tokyo on March 28, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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