Fire drill at Okinawa's Shuri Castle

Firefighters take part in a fire drill inside a temporary building covering the main hall of Shuri Castle, a symbol of the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa now under reconstruction, in Naha on Oct. 31, 2024, exactly five years after the 2019 fire that destroyed its main buildings located on a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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