Japanese student gains 32 million views as only one to dig up eight-year-old time capsule


By Fran Lu

Young man's disappointment over his ex-classmates and teacher forgetting their promise to return goes viral online. — SCMP

A Japanese university student has gone viral for being the sole member out of 35 primary school pupils to remember the “time capsule” they buried eight years ago, igniting a wave of sympathetic comments and nostalgic reflections from netizens.

The young man, who goes by the handle @tungsten___W on a social media platform, is currently a second-year student at the esteemed Tokyo University.

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