Around 89,000 people gathered at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday to attend the 23rd Buddhist memorial service for the late Yujiro Ishihara, a popular singer and actor who died in 1987 at the age of 52. In the grounds of the stadium, a model temple was constructed to display a picture of the superstar, who died on July 17, 1987, and 120 monks from a Yokohama temple, where he was buried, recited sutras.