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A historian's hunch about what might lie hidden within the walls of a Japanese church in Salt Lake City has led congregants to uncover a century-old snapshot of a once vibrant Japantown now fighting for survival.
Elders at the 101-year-old Japanese Church of Christ — one of only two remaining buildings in the city’s Japantown — drilled through brick, concrete and rebar to extract a metal box from the building’s cornerstone.
Its contents tell the stories of early Japanese immigrants to an area now overtaken by urban sprawl.
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