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Diary on Takamatsuzuka excavation disclosed

OSAKA, Japan - Takamasa Shimada, a 56-year-old man who was involved in research on murals at the Takamatsuzuka tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in 1972 as a college student, on March 21 shows a diary he kept at the time where he expressed premonition that the mural might be damaged one day. ''The murals are painted on plaster and I feel worried about their preservation,'' Shimada wrote in the diary he kept 30 years earlier. The tomb was accidentally damaged during preservation work in 2002. (Kyodo)